Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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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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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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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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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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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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Man is the religious animal.
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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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