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" Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. "

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

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

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

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" There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. "

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" Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. "

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" 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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" It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. "

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" Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. "

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

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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. "

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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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" Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe. "

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

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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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" Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. "

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" 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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" 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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" Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. "

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

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

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

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

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