George Washington

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• The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

• If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

• The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

• I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b

• Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

• My Mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my Mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

• When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

• We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

• To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that 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. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.

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