"The situation of the general government, if it……" — George Washington
"The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast."
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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 Blast Quotes
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast…
— Joseph Addison
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What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
— Madeleine Albright
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
— Dante Alighieri
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There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously…
— Walt Kelly
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I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini…
— Ronald Reagan
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May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb…
— Winston Churchill
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The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus…
— Oswald Chambers
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What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun…
— Gillian Flynn
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And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the…
— Thomas Hood
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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
— Richard Armour
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Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your…
— George Canning
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They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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