True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
GEORGE WASHINGTONFreedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
More George Washington Quotes
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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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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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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Man is the religious animal.
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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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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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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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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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