If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
GEORGE WASHINGTONMy mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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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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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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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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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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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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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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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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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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