Quote by George Washington
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what

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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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

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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

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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Mute though his lips be, yet they still speak. Hushed is his voice, but its echoes of liberty are ringing through the world, and the sons of bondage listen with joy. – Matthew Simpson

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Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. – John F. Kennedy

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He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune. – James Bryce

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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. – Edmund Burke

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We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. – Franklin P. Adams

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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in. – William Cowper

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I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up. – Erika Harris, empathicwriter.com

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