"A variety in punishment is of utility, as……" — George Washington
"A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion."
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525 Quotes by George Washington
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The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of…
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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…
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I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part…
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[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands…
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)…
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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…
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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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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
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I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married…
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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to…
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Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
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Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are…
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The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body,…
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I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and…
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I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why…
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