If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
GEORGE WASHINGTONGuard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
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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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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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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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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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