Re: George Washington meme
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Here is the actual text from Washington’s speech:
“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”
https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/spurious-quotations/