The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
GEORGE WASHINGTONReligion is a byproduct of fear.
More George Washington Quotes
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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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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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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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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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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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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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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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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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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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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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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