"But if we are to be told by……" — George Washington
"But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little."
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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 Contended Quotes
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in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your…
— Thomas Jefferson
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does.…
— Zig Ziglar
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Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial.…
— James Madison
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Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the…
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have…
— Sarah Winnemucca
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If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation,…
— Patricia Hampl
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Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find…
— Robert E. Lee
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There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by…
— George Washington
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