If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
GEORGE WASHINGTONMan is the religious animal.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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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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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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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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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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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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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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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.
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