Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
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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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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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