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More Quotes by George Washington
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.
Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.
When there is no vision, there is no hope.
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Honesty is always the best policy.
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.
