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The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.
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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Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.
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Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.
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Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
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