"My first wish is to see this plague……" — George Washington
"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind"
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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 Amusements Quotes
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the…
— Honore de Balzac
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the…
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind,…
— Benjamin Franklin
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers…
— Samuel Johnson
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I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had…
— Marcel Proust
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack…
— Michel Foucault
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Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we…
— Billy Graham
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My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that…
— Albert Einstein
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The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
— Plutarch
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares,…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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