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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONFew men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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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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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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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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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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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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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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