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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
More George Washington Quotes
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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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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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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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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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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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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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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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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