My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIf freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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