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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.

George Washington

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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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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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The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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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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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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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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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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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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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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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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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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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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