George Washington:A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington:Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington:Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington:Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
George Washington:Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington:Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington:Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington:Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington:Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington:Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
George Washington:Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington:Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington:Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington:Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington:I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
George Washington:I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
George Washington: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:I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
George Washington:If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington: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.
George Washington:It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington:It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington:It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George Washington:It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington:It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington:It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington:Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington:Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
George Washington:Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
George Washington: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:Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
George Washington:Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
George Washington:Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington:Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George Washington:My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
George Washington: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.
George Washington:My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
George Washington:Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington:Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington:Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington:Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
George Washington:The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
George Washington:The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
George Washington:The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
George Washington:The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington: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.
George Washington:The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington:The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington:The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
George Washington:Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
George Washington:There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington:To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington:True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington:Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
George Washington:War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George Washington: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.
George Washington:When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
George Washington:Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
Booker T. Washington:Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington:At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. Washington:Character is power.
Booker T. Washington:Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. Washington:Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington:Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington:Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington:I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington:I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
Booker T. Washington:I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington:I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington:If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
Booker T. Washington:If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington:No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Booker T. Washington:No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Booker T. Washington:No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington:Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington:One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington:Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington:Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington:The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Booker T. Washington:There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Booker T. Washington:There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington:To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Booker T. Washington:We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
Benjamin Franklin:A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin:A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin:A penny saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin Franklin:A place for everything, everything in its place.
Benjamin Franklin:A small leak can sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin:Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin Franklin:Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin:All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin:All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin Franklin:All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin:An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin:And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin:Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin:Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin:Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin:Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
Benjamin Franklin:Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin:As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin:At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin:Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin:Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin:Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin:Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin:Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin:Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Benjamin Franklin:Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin:Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin:Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin:Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin:Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin:Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin:I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin:Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin:For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin:Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin:Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin:Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin:God helps those who help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin:God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Benjamin Franklin:Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin:Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin:Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin:He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin:He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin:He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
Benjamin Franklin:He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
Benjamin Franklin:He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin:He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin:He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin:He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin:He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Benjamin Franklin:He that rises late must trot all day.
Benjamin Franklin:He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin Franklin:He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin:He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin Franklin:He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin:He that's secure is not safe.
Benjamin Franklin:He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin:Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Benjamin Franklin:Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin:Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin:How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin:Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin:I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
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