"Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and……" — George Washington
"Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth."
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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 Dissipated Quotes
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A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done…
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against…
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The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away.…
— Sun Tzu
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Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in…
— George Henry Lewes
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Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back…
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more…
— C.S. Lewis
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere…
— Emile Durkheim
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Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its…
— Samuel Johnson
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There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon…
— Maria Edgeworth
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All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals.…
— Gaylord Nelson
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I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a…
— David Berkowitz
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