Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
GEORGE WASHINGTONInterwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
More George Washington Quotes
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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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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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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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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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
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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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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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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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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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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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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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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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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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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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