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" I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting. "

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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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" Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. "

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

" 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. "

" My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. "

" I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country. "

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

" A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. "

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

" 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. "

" I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. "

" 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. "

" Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. "

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

" I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. "

George Washington

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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. "

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

" Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. "

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

" Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. "

" 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. "

" War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. "

" Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. "

" Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. "

" I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. "

" The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. "

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