Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.


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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is,...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical ...
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We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive p...
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Compared with the previous occasion when Judge Jackson heard oral argument on the facts in September...
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Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.
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with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the Brit...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
We'll be asking to set aside the Court of Appeals decision.
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After Braddock's Defeat: Terror in the Valley.
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Among individuals, the most certain way to make a Man your Enemy, is to tell him you esteem him such...
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with black feathery trim -- because the founding father was ''so stiff.
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far worse than were Congress to enact no measure at all.
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What we're trying to do is use some of the same legal tactics that have been so effective against th...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
You are guilty of murder.
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It's not the way it was when I was growing up. Things have changed.
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Obviously, we need to see the details of all the patients and the adverse events to be able to inter...
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I don't think it's a match-up problem. We have two of the best players around. We just didn't execut...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In the second half, we were down and we couldn't get back up.
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Unless there's a judge somewhere who is just dying for a case like this, I think it will be put to a...
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It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in t...
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I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in thei...
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In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude
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May the Father of All Mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths; and, make us in all o...
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and ...
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I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adop...
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Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, mor...
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The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if h...
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Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness
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