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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONNo punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
More George Washington Quotes
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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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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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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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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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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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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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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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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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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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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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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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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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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