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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. "
George Washington
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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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" 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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" Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. "
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" Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Past
" 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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" 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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" Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe. "
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" 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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" Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. "
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Freedom
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" It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. "
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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. "
George Washington
God
Repair
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" 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. "
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Me
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" 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. "
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" The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. "
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Determine
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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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" Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. "
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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. "
George Washington
Until
War
Constitution
" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. "
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" 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. "
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You
" Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. "
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" Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. "
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Discourse
Men
" 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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