A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
More George Washington Quotes
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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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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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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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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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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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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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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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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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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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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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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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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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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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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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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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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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