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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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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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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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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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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Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
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