The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
GEORGE WASHINGTON99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
More George Washington Quotes
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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There 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.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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Man is the religious animal.
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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 nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
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