"Honesty will be found on every experiment,..." - Quote by George Washington
Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
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“Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.”
“Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.”
“I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.”
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“One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.”
“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.”
“A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.”