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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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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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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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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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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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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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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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To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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