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" 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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" 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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" My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. "

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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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" 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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" Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. "

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" 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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" Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. "

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" It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. "

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" Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. "

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" It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. "

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" Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. "

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" To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. "

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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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" 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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" Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. "

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" It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. "

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" When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. "

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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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" Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. "

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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. "

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" The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. "

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" Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception. "

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" Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. "

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" It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. "

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" There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. "

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" 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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" The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. "

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" The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. "

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