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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

George Washington

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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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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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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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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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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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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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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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