Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Quote by George Washington
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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George Washington Quotes
- Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
- 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.
- Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
- My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
- 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.
- Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
- 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.
- True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
- Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
- Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Best Quotes
- Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
- Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
- Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
- We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
- But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.
- Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
- When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.
- Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
- I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
- My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.