The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIf we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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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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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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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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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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