Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
GEORGE WASHINGTONLabor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
More George Washington Quotes
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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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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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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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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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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