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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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1706 |
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AUTHOR:
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George Washington (1732–99) |
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QUOTATION:
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Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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Attributed to GEORGE WASHINGTON.—John Bernard, Retrospections of America, 1797–1811, p. 91 (1887). This is from Bernard’s account of a conversation he had with Washington in 1798. Unverified. |
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SUBJECTS:
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Slavery |
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