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George Washington
Age: 67 †
Born: 1732
Born: February 22
Died: 1799
Died: December 14
1St U.S. President
Cartographer
Engineer
Farmer
Land Surveyor
Military Officer
Politician
Slaveholder
Statesperson
Westmoreland County
Virginia
Washington
President Washington
G. Washington
Father of the United States
The American Fabius
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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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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.
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The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
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The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.
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Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.
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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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In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.
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The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded.
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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
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Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.
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Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.
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It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.
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The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.
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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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It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
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Be not forward, but friendly and courteous the first to salute, hear and answer and be not pensive when it is time to converse.
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The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.
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Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
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There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.
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