QUOTES by George Washington
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"It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders."
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"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy"
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"Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy."
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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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"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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"If to please the people,we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? 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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"...overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty."
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"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."
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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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"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."
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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. - March 15, 1783"
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"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all"
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"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all"
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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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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence."
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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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"Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?"
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"The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved."
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"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."
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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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"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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"Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world."
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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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"Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth."
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"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
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"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
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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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"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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"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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"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
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"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
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