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Quotes by George Washington
- I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
- I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
- I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- 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.
- It is better to be alone than in bad company.
- It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
- It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
- It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
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