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Ground Quotes by George Washington
- Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless…
- Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior…
- Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and…
- I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
- I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make…
- Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and…
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- To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it… — Joseph Addison