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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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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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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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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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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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