If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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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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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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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 reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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