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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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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Man is the religious animal.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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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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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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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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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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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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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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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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