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While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.
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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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It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
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The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
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Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.
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