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George Washington has 538 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated…
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To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
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The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all…
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I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind,…
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[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our…
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be…
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating…
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Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.
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To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
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Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere.
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The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion
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If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring…
— Alexander Hamilton
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As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.
— George Washington
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Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid…
— Thomas Jefferson
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For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one…
— Alexander Hamilton
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To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have…
— James A. Garfield
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The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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