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First Principles: 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
“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.” – George Washington, Farewell Address (1796) — George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796) can be read … Continue reading
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First Principles: Labor To Keep Alive In Your Breast That Little Spark of Celestial Fire Called Conscience
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” – George Washington (1748)
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First Principles: The First Transactions of A Nation, Like Those of an Individual Upon His First Entrance Into Life Make the Deepest Impression, and Are To Form the Leading Traits In Its Character
“The first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.” – George Washington (1788)
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First Principles: Reason and Experience Both Forbid Us To Expect That National Morality Can Prevail In Exclusion of Religious Principle
“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” – George Washington, in his Farewell Address
First Principles: If Freedom of Speech Is Taken Away, then Dumb and Silent We May Be Led, Like Sheep To the Slaughter
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington
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First Principles: Virtue Or Morality Is A Necessary Spring of Popular Government
“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.” – George Washington (1796)
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First Principles: Arbitrary Power Is Most Easily Established On the Ruins of Liberty Abused To Licentiousness
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” – George Washington (1753)
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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: The Spirit of Encroachment Tends To Consolidate the Powers of All the Departments In One, and Thus To Create Whatever the Form of Government, A Real Despotism
“”The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism.” – George Washington
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First Principles: If Freedom of Speech Is Taken Away, Then Dumb and Silent We May Be Led, Like Sheep To the Slaughter
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington
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