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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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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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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 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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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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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Man is the religious animal.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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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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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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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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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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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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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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