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.
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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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
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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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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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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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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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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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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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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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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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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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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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