To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
GEORGE WASHINGTONDecision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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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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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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