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George Washington Quotes

«[She said she learned at an early age] who were the good guys and who were the bad guys and who was going to pick on the weak. ... Sometimes its the people with the most power who are abusing it.»
«What we're trying to do is use some of the same legal tactics that have been so effective against the public health problem of smoking against the other public health problem of obesity,»
«[Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution.] From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.»
«You are guilty of murder.»
«It gave us a chance to reassess what our country stands for, what our freedoms mean and what our responsibility is,»
«It's not the way it was when I was growing up. Things have changed.»
«I belong to America.»
«I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.»
«The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.»
«The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.»