The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
GEORGE WASHINGTONSystem to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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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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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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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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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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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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