It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
GEORGE WASHINGTONBe not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
More George Washington Quotes
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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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’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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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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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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