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Quote from George Washington,


"Should, hereafter, those incited by the lust of power and prompted by the supineness or venality of their constituents, overleap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to show, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."


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George Washington (more quotes by George Washington or books by/about George Washington)


(1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, 'Father of the Country'

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Commitment, Consitution, Corruption, Power, Responsibility, Vigilance

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