We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThere is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
More George Washington Quotes
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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 turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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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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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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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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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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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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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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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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