Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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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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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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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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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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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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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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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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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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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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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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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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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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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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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
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