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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

George Washington

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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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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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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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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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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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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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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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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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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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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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Man is the religious animal.
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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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