{"author":"George Washington","author_id":"George+Washington","total_quotes":100,"quotes":[{"text":"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.","author":"George Washington","tags":["growth","adversity","plant "],"id":1591,"author_id":"George+Washington"},{"text":"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.","author":"George Washington","tags":["defense","insult","peace","prosperity","war"],"id":4733,"author_id":"George+Washington"},{"text":"Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.","author":"George Washington","tags":["america","revolutionary","rights"],"id":10596,"author_id":"George+Washington"},{"text":"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.","author":"George Washington","tags":["elections","history","patriotism","political-parties","political-philosophy","politics"],"id":17701,"author_id":"George+Washington"},{"text":"Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.","author":"George Washington","tags":["goals"],"id":27503,"author_id":"George+Washington"},{"text":"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.","author":"George Washington","tags":["laws","consent","individuals "],"id":28172,"author_id":"George+Washington"},{"text":"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.","author":"George Washington","tags":["moral","connected","duty "],"id":47324,"author_id":"George+Washington"},{"text":"True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.","author":"George Washington","tags":["friendship"],"id":53802,"author_id":"George+Washington"},{"text":"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.","author":"George Washington","tags":["pride","nation","illusion "],"id":55840,"author_id":"George+Washington"},{"text":"I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.","author":"George Washington","tags":["educational","inspirational","leadership"],"id":67102,"author_id":"George+Washington"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":100,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}