We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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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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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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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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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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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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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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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
GEORGE WASHINGTON