The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
GEORGE WASHINGTON99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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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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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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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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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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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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The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
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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 must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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