"The establishment of our new Government seemed to……" — George Washington
"The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree a government of accommodation as well as a government of Laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness."
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525 Quotes by George Washington
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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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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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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in…
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Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful…
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The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with…
— Ernst Haeckel
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Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the…
— William Merritt Chase
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I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call…
— Salvador Minuchin
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Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic…
— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will…
— Samuel Johnson
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Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both…
— Harry S. Truman
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
— Jean Piaget
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The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought:…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down…
— Ruth Benedict
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