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First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential In A Man
“A good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life.” – George Washington (1790)
First Principles: We Should Never Despair, Our Situation Before Has Been Unpromising and Has Changed For the Better, So I trust, It Will Again
“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency … Continue reading
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First Principles: No Man Has A More Perfect Reliance On the Alwise and the Powerful Dispensations of the Supreme Being Than I Nor Thinks His Aid More Necessary
“No Man has a more perfect Reliance on the alwise, and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have nor thinks his aid more necessary.” – George Washington
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First Principles: May the Father of All Mercies Scatter Light, and Not Darkness, Upon Our Paths
“May the Father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths.” – George Washington (1790)
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First Principles: I Hope I Shall Possess Firmness and Virtue Enough To Maintain What I Consider the Most Enviable of All Titles, the Character of An Honest Man
“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” ― George Washington
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First Principles: To Be Prepared For War Is One of the Most Effectual Means of Preserving Peace
“To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” -George Washington (1790)
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First Principles: The Crisis Is Arrived When We Must Assert Our Rights or Submit To Every Imposition That Can Be Heaped Upon Us, Until Custom and Use Shall Make Us As Tame and Abject Slaves
“The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves.” – George Washington (1774)
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First Principles: May the Father of All Mercies Scatter Light, and Not Darkness, Upon Our Paths
“May the Father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths.” – George Washington
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First Principles: To Be Prepared For War Is One of the Most Effectual Means of Preserving Peace
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” – George Washington
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First Principles: The Common and Continual Mischiefs of the Spirit of Party Are Sufficient To Make It the Interest and Duty of A Wise People To Discourage and Restrain It
“The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.” – George Washington
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