George Washington
George Washington
George Washingtonwas the first President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He presided over the convention that drafted the current United States Constitution and during his lifetime was called the "father of his country"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth22 February 1732
CountryUnited States of America
strong teaching men
Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers in the Craft who have attained its highest honors and of their firm belief in the power of its teachings to purify the soul of men and raise them to a new dignity and to greater heights of spirituality and practical morality.
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To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights, to discern and provide against invasions of them, to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority, between burdens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society.
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More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us.
teaching people teach
You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.
dream lying teaching
Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
shoot somebody
When you have somebody that big, you have to be able to shoot from the outside.
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with black feathery trim -- because the founding father was ''so stiff.
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with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren.
purpose solely
used solely for the purpose of encouraging American genius.
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The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion
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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind