"`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is……" — George Washington
"`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government."
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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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More Every Species Quotes
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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation…
— John Gorrie
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The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures…
— Plutarch
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Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived.…
— E. O. Wilson
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But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar…
— George Washington
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We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
— Daniel Suarez
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The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect…
— E. O. Wilson
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Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us…
— Harriet Lerner
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Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either…
— Richard Owen
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Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally…
— John Dewey
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It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and…
— Maimonides
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