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Letter "G" » George Washington Quotes
«My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
amusements, banished, daughters, employed, exercising, implemented, implementing, implements, my first, plague, pleasing, preparing, Sons and Daughters
«Influence is no Government»
«Thus supported by a firm trust in the Great Arbiter of the Universe, aided by the collected wisdom of the Union, and imploring the divine benediction on our joint exertions in the service of our country, I readily engage with you in the arduous but p»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
aided, arbiter, arbiters, arduous, benediction, benedictions, collected, divine service, engage, exertions, implore, imploring, joint, readily, supported, The Service, the union
«You will therefore send me none but Natives, and Men of some property, if you have them»
Author: George Washington
(President)
«The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government,
Liberty,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
American people, entrust, entrusted, entrusts, experiment, justly, model, preservation, Republican, staked
«Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
adopt, calculated, calculating, carry, coercive, execution, executions, for good measure, intervention, interventions, measures, taught
«Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly in misspending time.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
«Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Liberty,
Military,
Politics
| Keywords:
establishments, form of government, inauspicious
«If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Desire,
Insults,
Peace
| Keywords:
instruments, repel, repelled, repelling, repels
«That a national university in this country is a thing to be desired, has always been my decided opinion»
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