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Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.
George Washington
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George Washington
Age: 67 †
Born: 1732
Born: February 22
Died: 1799
Died: December 14
1St U.S. President
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Westmoreland County
Virginia
Washington
President Washington
G. Washington
Father of the United States
The American Fabius
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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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No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance, or to the general sentiment and wish of the Nation than to establish a systematic and effectual arrangement for the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt.
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I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.
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We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.
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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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[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.
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The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
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You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention.
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In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.
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Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.
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The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.
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