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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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First Principles: We Must Take Human Nature As We Find It, Perfection Fails Not To the Share of Mortals
“We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.” – George Washington (1786)
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First Principles: All See, and Most Admire, the Glare Which Hovers Round the External Trappings of Elevated Office…To Me There Is Nothing In It , Beyond…Its Connection With A Power of Promoting Human Felicity
“All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.” … Continue reading
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First Principles: Freedom of Speech May Be Taken Away, and Dumb and Silent We May Be Led, Like Sheep, To the Slaughter
“If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech … Continue reading
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