There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
GEORGE WASHINGTONPaper 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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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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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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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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Man is the religious animal.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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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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No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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