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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.

George Washington

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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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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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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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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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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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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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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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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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