Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIf we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
More George Washington Quotes
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Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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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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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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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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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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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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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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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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