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GEORGE WASHINGTONExperience 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.
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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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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.
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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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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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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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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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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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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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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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