The magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my Country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens, a distrustful scrutiny into his qualification, could not but overwhelm with dispondence, one, who, inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpractised in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficencies. – George Washington, First Inaugural Address, New York, April 30, 1789; Fitzpatrick 30:291
532 posted on 04/30/2012 3:39:09 PM PDT by RedMDer
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