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Monday, 11/21/2016 9:32:24 PM

Monday, November 21, 2016 9:32:24 PM

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George Washington Famous Quotes:

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington

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. George Washington

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. George Washington

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. George Washington

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. George Washington

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. George Washington

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. George Washington

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. George Washington

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. George Washington

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. George Washington

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. George Washington

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting. George Washington

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When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
Robert Montgomery Knight - The General

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