To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
GEORGE WASHINGTONMake sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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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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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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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
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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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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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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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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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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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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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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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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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