Quote by: George Washington

Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.


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  • NameGeorge Washington
  • DescriptionAmerican politician, 1st president of the United States (in office from 1789 to 1797)
  • BornJuly 4, 1732
  • DiedDecember 14, 1799
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Officer; Farmer; Cartographer
  • AwardsThanks Of Congress; Congressional Gold Medal