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.
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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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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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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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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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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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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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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Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
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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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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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