Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
GEORGE WASHINGTONHuman happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
More George Washington Quotes
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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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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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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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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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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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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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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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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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
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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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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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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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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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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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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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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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