Tag: George Washington
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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.
George Washington
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Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
George Washington
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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.
George Washington
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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George Washington
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The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
George Washington
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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.
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.
George Washington
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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.
George Washington
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
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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.
George Washington