Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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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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The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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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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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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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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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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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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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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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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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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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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