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"49 George Washington Quotes & Sayings

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Born: February 22, 1732 Died: December 14, 1799 | President | Military general | Statesman |

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

Business Short Discourse Men
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Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Government Left Mankind Own
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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.
Honest Maintain Character Possess
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship Growth Plant Adversity
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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.

Indulge Supposition Morality Caution
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Labor Alive Conscience Little
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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.

Associate Quality Reputation Better
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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.

Foolish Wicked Profane Practice
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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.

Political System Right People
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Virtue Withstand Highest Bidder
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Freedom Speech Dumb Sheep
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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.

Science Literature Patronage Promotion
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Banished Earth First Mankind
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Cultivate Faith Good Harmony
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Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Common Consent Individuals Laws
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Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Bring Light Pains Prevail
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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.

God Hands Honest Raise
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Confidence Courteous Few Give
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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Alone Bad Better Company
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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.

Form Government Grown Hostile
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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.

Abuse Deprive Found Jealousy
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Begins Growth Liberty Plant
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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Accomplish Act Constrain Enemy
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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.

Avoid Desire Instruments Insult
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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.

Conduct Drawn Ground Hereafter
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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.Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Army Discipline Esteem Formidable
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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Aside Assumed Citizen Lay
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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

American Determine Free Hand
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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.

Actions Attachment Convince Criterion
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Effective Means Most Peace
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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.

Afflictions Distress Everyone Feel
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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.

Away Bad Kind Lost
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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Connected Duty Happiness Moral
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Abuse Arbitrary Easily Established
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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.

Basis Citizen Defense Down
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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.

Bought Dearly Derive Errors
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Borrow Interest Paid Trouble
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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.

Country Founded Good Honors
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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.

Authorized Congress Constitution Declaring
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Bad Better Excuse Offer
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Against Guard Patriotism Pretended
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The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Abandon Constitution Guide Never
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Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

America Europe Example Following
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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.

Calculate Cure Discard Error
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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.

Possession Easier Enemy Experience
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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.

Army Discipline Hurtful Neglect
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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.

Bigot Christianity Church Direct
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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.

Direction Little Observe Path
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It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Arriving Being Impossible Reason
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