Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
GEORGE WASHINGTONLet your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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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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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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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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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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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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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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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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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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