"Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on……" — George Washington
"Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783"
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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 Almost Blind Quotes
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To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.
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I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at…
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Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
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When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal…
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I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes…
— Daniel Defoe
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I fell in love, it slowly dimmed leaving me almost blind. But somehow I managed to build a ladder and…
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