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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONDiscipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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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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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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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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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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