One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
GEORGE WASHINGTONDecision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
More George Washington Quotes
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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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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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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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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Man is the religious animal.
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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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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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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