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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIt is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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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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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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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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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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