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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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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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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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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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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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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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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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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