"Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to……" — George Washington
"Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception."
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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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More Bigot Quotes
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a…
— Andrew Carnegie
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is no bigot like the atheist.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy…
— W.C. Fields
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The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
— Ashley Montagu
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A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.
— Howard Thurman
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Anti-Semitism does not signify opposition to Semitism. There is no such thing. It is an expression we Jews use effectively…
— Harold Wallace Rosenthal
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My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about…
— Cindy Sherman
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These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.
— Jane Russell
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Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.
— Rush Limbaugh
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There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.
— Julianne Malveaux
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