To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
More George Washington Quotes
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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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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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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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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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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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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