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GEORGE WASHINGTON Knowledge’s surest logic is the lack of knowledge.
SORIN CERIN George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?
JEFF MELVOIN Every countenance seeked to say, "Long live George Washington, the Father of the People."
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR As George J. Stigler said of some of his fellow Nobel Laureates, they “issue stern ultimata to the...
THOMAS SOWELL He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life
JOHN TEMPLETON Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
JOHN TAYLOR GATTO Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep th...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI Supposedly, George Washington gave him a cannon. And every year on the 4th of July, he'd fire 14 sho...
LINDA ASHCRAFT Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washingto...
PETE HEGSETH The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the publi...
JOHN ADAMS I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
GEORGE WASHINGTON ...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard agains...
MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues hav...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions h...
DANIEL WEBSTER Washington--a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration,...
DANIEL WEBSTER That name was a power to rally a nation in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamit...
DANIEL WEBSTER That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole earth, and uttered in all the language...
DANIEL WEBSTER While Washington hath left His awful memory, A light for after times.
ROBERT SOUTHEY His work well done, the leader stepped aside Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride. Con...
JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mi...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebra...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.
GEN. HENRY LEE First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens.
GEN. HENRY LEE A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.
GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of ...
RICHARD WATSON GILDER O Washington! thrice glorious name, What due rewards can man decree-- Empires are far below t...
PHILIP FRENEAU There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay, We must ...
ELIZA COOK Where may the wearied eye repose, When gazing on the Great; Where neither guilty glory glows, ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate; Armies won battles wh...
ROBERT BRIDGES ("DROCH") Our common Father and Deliverer, to whose prudence, wisdom and valour we owe our Peace, Liberty and...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man, History and tradition ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR 'Twas his ambition, generous and great A life to life's great end to consecrate.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstanc...
HENRY KNOX The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the dou...
EDWARD EVERETT You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. ...
KERRY WASHINGTON "The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just p...
GEORGE WASHINGTON If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest em...
JOHN ACTON Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
GEORGE SANTAYANA It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. –GEORGE WASHINGTON
CHUCK MISSLER The surest cure for loneliness,
the quickest way to happiness,
is found in this, a simple ...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is...
JAMES ALLEN The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching...
MALCOLM X George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong ...
RANDALL TERRY When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.
BEN NELSON This game is over - dead as George Washington . We've got to keep moving on.
AMANI TOOMER The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its...
THOMAS C. HALIBURTON The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its...
THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON President George Washington’s namesake capital, once a marketplace for slave auctions, is now syno...
PATRICK MENDIS Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer...
TOM DOUGLAS There is a real sense of cynicism about the level of corruption in Washington. The feeling among pub...
CARROLL DOHERTY The basis of effective government if public confidence.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut.
DONALD TRUMP Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL knowledge is the cause for happiness and suffering.
CLEMENT LAZAR My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world
ABDUL SATTAR EDHI George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not eve...
MARK TWAIN George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not ev...
MARK TWAIN Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
MARION BARRY We have a monument here for the greatest troublemakers of our history -- Thomas Jefferson and George...
DANA ROHRABACHER Working at the George Washington Bridge was probably the best job I ever had.
ERNESTO BUTCHER The river of knowledge has no depth.
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are search...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. George Mason is perfect for me, ... It's three hours away and it's right near Washington, D.C. The c...
CHRIS HENDERSON This is a step in the right direction because a number of us have been urging Washington for years t...
JACK WEISS Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can thi...
JACOB BRONOWSKI That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON In America, it is indispensable that every well-wisher of true liberty should understand that acts o...
JAMES F. COOPER The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it aroun...
EMANUEL CLEAVER The engaged campus is unable to separate its unique responsibility for the development of knowledge ...
GLENN BOWEN Memes can be visual. Our image of George Washington is a meme. We don't actually have any idea w...
JAMES GLEICK It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be...
VINCENT CANBY I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who wa...
ROBERT FROST Public opinion in this country is everything.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most ...
H.W. BRANDS Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every societ...
KOFI ANNAN The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince G...
SIMON NEWCOMB Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and ...
DAISAKU IKEDA Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and ...
ANDY GRAMMER The greatest escape is raising the future in knowledge learned almost to late through the happiness ...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most peopl...
CHARLES SIMMONS Living on campus is not just about a convenient commute to work. My residence at The George Washingt...
MARK LEVINE The way to beat [Bush] is not to mimic him, as some of my opponents have done in opting out of the p...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN To sense the peace of extinguished passion
Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ong...
BARTON GELLMAN The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been tau...
HENRY BOLINGBROKE I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
WILL ROGERS Nobody used to look at George Washington, with his wooden teeth, in his powdered wig, and say, Fashi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has...
LUKE SCOTT There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Was...
CARROLL QUIGLEY The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been t...
BOLINGBROKE His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect ...
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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...
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