The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
More George Washington Quotes
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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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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Man is the religious animal.
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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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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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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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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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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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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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