199 ordspråk av George Washington
George Washington
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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Being a politician makes your hair turn white,
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Compared with the previous occasion when Judge Jackson heard oral argument on the facts in September 1999, he played more of an active role in the courtroom today, ... He asked a lot of questions, which revealed that he is still thinking quite a bit about the part of the opinion that deals with tying.
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Confirm thy soul in self-control.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible.
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Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power
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Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession
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far worse than were Congress to enact no measure at all.
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Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.
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Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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