George Washington

George Washington

"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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"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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"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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"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
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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."
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"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
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"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
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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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"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."
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"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
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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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"War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will."
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"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
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"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."
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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."
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"Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive."
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"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
George Washington
"I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it."
George Washington
"Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it."
George Washington
"Heaven itself has ordained the right."
George Washington
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
George Washington
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