The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
GEORGE WASHINGTON99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
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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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To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
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No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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