The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.


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GEORGE WASHINGTON
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive p...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Compared with the previous occasion when Judge Jackson heard oral argument on the facts in September...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
After Braddock's Defeat: Terror in the Valley.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Among individuals, the most certain way to make a Man your Enemy, is to tell him you esteem him such...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
with black feathery trim -- because the founding father was ''so stiff.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
far worse than were Congress to enact no measure at all.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It's not the way it was when I was growing up. Things have changed.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Obviously, we need to see the details of all the patients and the adverse events to be able to inter...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Unless there's a judge somewhere who is just dying for a case like this, I think it will be put to a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in thei...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude
GEORGE WASHINGTON
May the Father of All Mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths; and, make us in all o...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adop...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, mor...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if h...
GEORGE WASHINGTON