To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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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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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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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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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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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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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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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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