Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
GEORGE WASHINGTONDecision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
More George Washington Quotes
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
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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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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
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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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