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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.

George Washington

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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Men One Liner Virtue
Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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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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