"No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the……" — George Washington
"No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable."
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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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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
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In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are…
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by…
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is…
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any…
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I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.
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In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political…
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I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a…
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Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then…
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