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More Quotes by George Washington
You have only one way to convince others, listen to them.
Honesty is always the best policy.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.
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.
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.
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.
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.
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
