It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
GEORGE WASHINGTONGuard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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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 peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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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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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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