99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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.
More George Washington Quotes
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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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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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
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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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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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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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 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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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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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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The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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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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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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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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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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