Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
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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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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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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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 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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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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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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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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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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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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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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