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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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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation.…
— Edward Hoagland
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
— George Washington
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Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long…
— Charles Darwin
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It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is…
— Oswald Chambers
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not…
— Aldous Huxley
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Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.
— Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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Drifting body it's sole desertion. Flying not yet quite the notion. Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home?…
— Alice In Chains
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