Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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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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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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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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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Man is the religious animal.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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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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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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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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To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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