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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONA sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
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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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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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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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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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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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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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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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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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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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