Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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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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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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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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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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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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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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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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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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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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