I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThere is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
More George Washington Quotes
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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