To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
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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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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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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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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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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.
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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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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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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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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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