Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
GEORGE WASHINGTONSpeak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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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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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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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
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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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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
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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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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
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