Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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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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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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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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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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Man is the religious animal.
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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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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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