Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
More George Washington Quotes
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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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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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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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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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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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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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.
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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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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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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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