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(786 votes) Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

George Washington
1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(759 votes) I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.

George Washington

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(719 votes) 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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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(628 votes) Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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(378 votes) 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(317 votes) Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.

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(266 votes) When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

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(240 votes) I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b

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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(238 votes) Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.

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(212 votes) 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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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(189 votes) "I would rather die on my feet, than live on my knees"

George Washington
First President of the United States

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(186 votes) 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 the appellation.

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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(184 votes) The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(181 votes) It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. [Dec. 14, 1977]

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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(179 votes) Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

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(174 votes) I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

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(172 votes) The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.

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(171 votes) It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(166 votes) Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(166 votes) 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.

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(165 votes) If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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(164 votes) Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

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(163 votes) The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

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(160 votes) 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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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(160 votes) 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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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(156 votes) 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 grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation

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(155 votes) How soon we forget history...Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

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(152 votes) Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

George Washington
1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(152 votes) 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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(151 votes) To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(149 votes) Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

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(148 votes) Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

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(147 votes) My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(145 votes) Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(145 votes) The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(145 votes) Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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(142 votes) I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

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1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(142 votes) Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

George Washington
1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(140 votes) True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington
1732-1799, First President of the USA

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(131 votes) Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

George Washington

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