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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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It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.
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Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.
George Washington
All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.
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As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.
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99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.
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I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.
George Washington
Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them
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I am just going. Have me decently buried and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well.
George Washington
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
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Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others.
George Washington
A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.
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System in all things should be aimed at for in execution it renders every thing more easy.
George Washington
The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
George Washington
Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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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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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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It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
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From thinking proceeds speaking thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!
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Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad.
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[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
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