To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIt is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
More George Washington Quotes
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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Man is the religious animal.
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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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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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System 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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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
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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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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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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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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 we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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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