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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
More George Washington Quotes
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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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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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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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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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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