Tag: George Washington
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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.
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.
George Washington
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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.
George Washington
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
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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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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
George Washington
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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.
George Washington
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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
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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.
George Washington
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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.
George Washington