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  • Washington Irving Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • George Washington Burnap Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
    Source: The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures (1848)
    George Washington Burnap
    American Unitarian clergyman (1802 - 1859)
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  • George Washington To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • C. L. R. James Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Dorothy Day Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
    Dorothy Day
     
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  • George Washington True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Anson Jones Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days.
    Anson Jones
     
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  • Burgess Owens W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • John McCain Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Robert Orben Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
    Robert Orben
    American editor, writer, humorist (1927 - 2023)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Bill Halter Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs.
    Bill Halter
    American politician (1960 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Washington is dominated by big money.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Bill Flores Washington is out of control, and it's time for Texans to stand up and stop them.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Brad Wenstrup Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know better. We know it's smaller, less intrusive government that will lead to real economic prosperity. We know it's business-friendly policies, not more red tape, that will create real growth.
    Brad Wenstrup
    American politician, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Reserve" class="mw-redirect&# (1958 - )
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  • Alistair Cooke Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Ben Shapiro Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold We all went up to Washington on a mission to change things. What I found is that the Founding Fathers set it up where it's a little more difficult to do. We've got the Senate and the president to deal with.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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