Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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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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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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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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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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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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