Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
GEORGE WASHINGTONStrive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
More George Washington Quotes
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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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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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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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Man is the religious animal.
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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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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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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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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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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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