I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
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.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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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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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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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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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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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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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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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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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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Man is the religious animal.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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