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~ A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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~ Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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~ It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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~ It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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~ I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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~ The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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~ A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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~ Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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~ We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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~ Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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~ Its better to live alone than to live in a bad company.
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~ My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw.
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~ 99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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~ Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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~ It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
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~ Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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~ Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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~ Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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~ 99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.
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~ I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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~ Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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~ Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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~ Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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~ [Death] … the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return.
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~ To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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~ Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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~ Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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~ To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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~ If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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~ Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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~ Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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~ Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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~ There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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~ Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do—then do it with all your strength.
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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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~ Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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~ To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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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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~ It is absolutely necessary for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
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~ The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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~ Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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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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~ Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.
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~ Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
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~ Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
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~ I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
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~ No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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~ Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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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.
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~ The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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~ Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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~ Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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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.
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~ A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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~ Associate yourself 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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~ Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
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~ Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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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.
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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.
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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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~ 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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~ 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.
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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.
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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.
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~ The gradual extension of our settlements will as certainly cause the savage, as the wolf, to retire; both being beasts of prey, though they differ in shape.
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Motivational Quotes By George Washington -:

~ The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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~ Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.
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~ Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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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 connection as possible.
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~ Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
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~ Do not suffer your good nature to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public not a private cause that is to be injured or benefitted by your choice.
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~ There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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~ The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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~ Overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.
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~ It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
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~ No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.
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~ Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
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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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~ It is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets.
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~ If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? 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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~ Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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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.
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~ We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed… we must bear the present evils and fortitude.
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George Washington Inspirational Quotes -:

~ The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
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~ Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
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~ But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
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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. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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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.
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~ Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother’s sword has been sheathed in a brother’s breast and that the once-happy plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?
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~ Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
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~ While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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~ Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also—if you love them enough.
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~ A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
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~ As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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~ Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
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~ Of Congress, “party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day whilst the momentous concerns of an empire…are but secondary considerations,” that “business of a trifling nature and personal concernment withdraws their attention from matters of great national moment.
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~ No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.
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~ A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.
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~ The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
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~ The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.
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~ The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are free men, fighting for the blessings of Liberty — that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.
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~ If Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.
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~ It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction – to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.
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~ However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
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~ To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race.
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~ Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
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