Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI 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.
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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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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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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
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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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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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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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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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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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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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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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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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