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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.

George Washington

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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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Enemy Meet Peace Prepare Produce
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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Enemy Fortune
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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Attach Avoid Desire Insult Repel Revenge
The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Citizen Decision Requirement Understand
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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Affliction Distress Feeling Heart One Liner
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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Constitution Government People Politics
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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Confederation Good Human Human Nature Opinion
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Dreans Earth Man Plague
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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Confidence Courtesy Helping Intimate
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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Government Moral Rules Species True Virtue
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Men One Liner Virtue
The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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