Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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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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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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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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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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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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To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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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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