It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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.
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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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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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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 first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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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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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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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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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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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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No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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