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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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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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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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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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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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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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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 great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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