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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

George Washington

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Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
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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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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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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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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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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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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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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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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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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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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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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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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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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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