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“The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.”
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George Washington
Source : George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.97, Rowman & Littlefield
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“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
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George Washington
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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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George Washington
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“One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny.”
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George Washington
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“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. Do not ever let anyone claim to be a true American patriot if they ever attempt to separate religion from politics.”
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George Washington
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“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”
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George Washington
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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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George Washington
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“Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.”
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George Washington
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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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George Washington
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“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”
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George Washington
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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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George Washington
Source : George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the
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“The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.”
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George Washington
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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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George Washington
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“It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.”
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George Washington
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“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
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George Washington
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“the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.”
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George Washington
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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.”
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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.”
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George Washington
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“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
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George Washington
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“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
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George Washington
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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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“I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.”
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George Washington
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“Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.”
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George Washington
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“If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.”
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“We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.”
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George Washington
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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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George Washington
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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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George Washington
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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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George Washington
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“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.”
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George Washington
Source : "The Real George Washington".
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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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George Washington
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