We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
GEORGE WASHINGTONTo the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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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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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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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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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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