There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
GEORGE WASHINGTONLabor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
More George Washington Quotes
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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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 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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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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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