I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
GEORGE WASHINGTONWisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
More George Washington Quotes
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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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.
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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.
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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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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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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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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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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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