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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)
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am. View quote
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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.' View quote
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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. View quote
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I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country. (George Washington)
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. View quote
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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment. View quote
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Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it. View quote
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The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. View quote
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To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. View quote
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Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. View quote
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. View quote
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There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature. (George Washington)
To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable. View quote
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few. View quote
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The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. View quote
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The General is sorry to be informed -, that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; - he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it. View quote
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