"To please everybody is impossible; were I to……" — George Washington
"To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody."
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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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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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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has…
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And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
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I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
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Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The…
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at…
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According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
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Films should be for everybody.
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I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy.…
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