One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIf we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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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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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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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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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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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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