We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
GEORGE WASHINGTONDecision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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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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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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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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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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