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GEORGE WASHINGTONHuman happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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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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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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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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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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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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