Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIf we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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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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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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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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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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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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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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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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