"There is no practice more dangerous than that……" — George Washington
"There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money"
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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 Borrowing Quotes
This quote is filed under Borrowing Quotes,
one of 175 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
— Aeschylus
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Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going…
— Sonny Bono
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know…
— Ray Bradbury
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed…
— James Buchan
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
— Edmund Burke
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My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more…
— Margaret Cho
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Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
— Thomas Tusser
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Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear…
— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to…
— John Wilmot
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