Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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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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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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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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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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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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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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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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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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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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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 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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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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