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Quotations by author » George Washington
American commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775-83) and subsequently 1st US President (1789-97), 1732-1799
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Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
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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.
Courtesy
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Friendship
Being a politician makes your hair turn white,
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Compared with the previous occasion when Judge Jackson heard oral argument on the facts in September 1999, he played more of an active role in the courtroom today, ... He asked a lot of questions, which revealed that he is still thinking quite a bit about the part of the opinion that deals with tying.
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Confirm thy soul in self-control.
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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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Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible.
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Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power
Experience
Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country
Experience
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession
Experience
far worse than were Congress to enact no measure at all.
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Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.
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Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Friendship
George Washington Remembers: Reflections on the French and Indian War.
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force.
Government
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