Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
GEORGE WASHINGTONArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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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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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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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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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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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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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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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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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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