The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThose who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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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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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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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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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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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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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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