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George Washington
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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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The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.
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To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life, unaccustomed to the din of arms, totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill ... makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows.
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Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.
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Always speak the truth.
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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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I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.
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A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.
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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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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
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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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The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.
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What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.
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The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.
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Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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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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For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.
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The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.
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