“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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“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
― George Washington
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“[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return”
― George Washington
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“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation. ”
― George Washington
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“Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.”
― George Washington
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“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle”
― George Washington |
“Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.”
― George Washington
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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.”
― George Washington
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“Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.”
― George Washington
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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.”
― George Washington
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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.”
― George Washington
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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.”
― George Washington
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“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ”
― George Washington
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“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
― George Washington
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“Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
― George Washington
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“Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.”
― George Washington
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