Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
GEORGE WASHINGTONMan is the religious animal.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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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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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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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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