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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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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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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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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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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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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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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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