One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
GEORGE WASHINGTONA slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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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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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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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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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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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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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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