Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
GEORGE WASHINGTONA primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
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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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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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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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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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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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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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Man is the religious animal.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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