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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.

George Washington

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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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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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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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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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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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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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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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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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