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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.

George Washington

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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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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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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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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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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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Believe God Man One Liner
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Men One Liner Virtue
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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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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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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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
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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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