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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

George Washington

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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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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 harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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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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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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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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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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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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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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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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