"I have no other view than to promote……" — George Washington
"I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country."
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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 Approbation Quotes
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
— David Hume
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of…
— Joseph Addison
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There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his…
— Arthur Helps
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It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the…
— Thomas Reid
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Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our…
— Charles Darwin
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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity.…
— Herbert Spencer
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Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as…
— William Golding
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The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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