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"Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth."

~George Washington

General Orders, Headquarters, New York (2 July 1776)

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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