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«The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and proprie»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
bosom, decency, oppressed, opulent, participation, persecuted, privileges, respectable, Rights and privileges
«It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
basis, citizen, defense, defense system, enjoys, laid, owes, personal property, position, primary, proportion, protection, services
«Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? It is our true policy to st»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
caprice, caprices, entangle, entangling, European, interweave, interweaving, toils
«A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Acquaintance,
Action,
Friendship
| Keywords:
acquaintance, convince, criterion, good will, Marks, professions, slender, surest
«May the Father of All Mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths; and, make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
due, everlastingly, Father of, Father Time, in due time, mercies, not due, paths, scatter, scattering, several, The Father, vocations
«I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Animals,
Husbands
| Keywords:
branches, Branches of, breed, husbandman, improving, rendered, services
«Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.»
«To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
«Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Debt
| Keywords:
burthen, debts, discharge, exertions, likewise, occasioned, occasions, posterity, shunning, throwing, unavoidable, vigorous
«Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, if this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance, in a just cause, to any power»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Justice,
Self-respect
| Keywords:
bid, defiance, for sure, involve, Just Cause, Just War, Long War, national, preserved, self respect, tranquillity
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