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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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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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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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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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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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Believe God Man One Liner
I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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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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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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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.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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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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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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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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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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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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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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