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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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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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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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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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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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