To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIf the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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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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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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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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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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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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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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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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