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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Wash

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. – George Washington

Other quotes by 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

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Presidents Day
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George Washington
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. – George Washington

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power
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George Washington
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. – Walter Lippmann

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Men

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Dont trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. – Charles Dickens

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Men

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. – Nelson Mandela

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Men

You know when youre young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and theyre trying to be old men and they have no idea what thats like? Its just that stupid the other way around. – Clint Eastwood

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Men

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The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. – Gustave Flaubert

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work

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Cynicism

Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. – E. M. Forster

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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks

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Genius