If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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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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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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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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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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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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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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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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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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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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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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