"History and experience prove that foreign influence is……" — George Washington
"History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."
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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 Baneful Quotes
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Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as…
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If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting…
— Herman Melville
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Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free…
— George Washington
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Let me now ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.…
— George Washington
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If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution…
— Gautama Buddha
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The more separated we become from the Earth, the more hostile we become to the feminine. We disown our passion,…
— Alberto Villoldo
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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
— Zebulon Pike
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Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and…
— Democritus
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Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and…
— Walter Scott
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Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.
— Stephen Grellet
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Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence
— Thomas Jefferson
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