It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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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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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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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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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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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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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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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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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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