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Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
George Washington
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George Washington
Age: 67 †
Born: 1732
Born: February 22
Died: 1799
Died: December 14
1St U.S. President
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G. Washington
Father of the United States
The American Fabius
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Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.
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Be not forward, but friendly and courteous the first to salute, hear and answer and be not pensive when it is time to converse.
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I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.
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No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.
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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.
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