"We began a contest for liberty ill..." - Quote by George Washington
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed we must bear the present evils and fortitude
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“Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.”
“What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.”
“[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.”
More on Liberty
“The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.”
“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”
“There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.”
More on Patriotism
“Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.”
“War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.”
“The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.”