George Washington Quotes
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For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.
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A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.
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Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.
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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.
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Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.
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The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.
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Have the strength to be an honest person.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
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If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.
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It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.
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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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To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
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Death...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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When there is no vision, there is no hope.
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In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.