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# Elias Boudinot

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Elias Boudinot was an American Founding Father, lawyer, statesman, and early abolitionist and women's rights advocate. During the Revolutionary War, Boudinot was an intelligence officer and prisoner-of-war commissary under general George Washington, working to improve conditions for prisoners on bot

##  Quotes by Elias Boudinot

> [“Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elias-boudinot/good-government-generally-begins-in-the-family-and-if-the-moral/)

Elias Boudinot

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