The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
GEORGE WASHINGTONPromote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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Man is the religious animal.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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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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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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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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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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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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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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