"I can never think of promoting my convenience……" — George Washington
"I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination."
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525 Quotes by George Washington
George Washington has 525 quotes on this site.
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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 Convenience Quotes
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
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Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one…
— James Buchan
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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and…
— Tadao Ando
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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at…
— Maya Angelou
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at…
— Abraham Cowley
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
— Winston Churchill
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The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive…
— Edmund Burke
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Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience…
— Edward Bond
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Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the…
— Chip Kidd
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Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with…
— Norbert Wiener
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable…
— Giordano Bruno
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