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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.

George Washington

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No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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Build Country Freedom Man Opinion Punishment Ruin
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Connect Duty Happiness Human Moral One Liner
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Abuse Liberty Power Ruin
Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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Attach Avoid Desire Insult Repel Revenge
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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Confidence Courtesy Helping Intimate
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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Adopt Execution Experience Intervention Men Power Teaching
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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Constitution Government People Politics
If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Desire Instrument Music Place Powerful Prosperity Secure
I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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Convinced Critical Government Leadership Politics Support Trouble Truth
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
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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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Degree Habit Nation Slave
A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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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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