If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ― George Washington

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. -C. S. Lewis

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Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. ― George Washington

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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. ― George Washington

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Patience is a conquering virtue.

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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. -Harriet Beecher Stowe

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I am a film director, and I work with a visual language, with a visual medium. And I try to make virtue of the use of this visual medium. And I try to make sure what I do speaks the language of cinema. - Luca Guadagnino

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All friends shall taste The wages of their virtue, and all foes The cup of their deserving.

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Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess. ― thomas paine

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Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

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