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1722 President Quotes

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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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Except Means Never Peace
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Attack Battle Beaten Both
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Disgrace Find Labor Man
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

Accomplished Always Anything Anywhere
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

Individuals Like Nations Punished
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Art Art Of War Enemy Enough
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Adversity Always Better Cherish
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Fail Make Men Obedience
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
Doodle Know Only Other
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

Any Chief Chief Executive Executive
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

After Again Any Being
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Could Drawing Found In My Opinion
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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Altar Church Church And State Contributions
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Bad Effective Execution Know
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Let us have peace.

Let Us Peace Have Us
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