Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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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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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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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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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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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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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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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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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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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