The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
GEORGE WASHINGTONOne of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
More George Washington Quotes
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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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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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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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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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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