Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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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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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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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
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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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I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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