No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, first inaugural address, Apr. 30, 1789
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Circular to the States, May 9, 1753
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