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Enlightened Quotes by George Washington
- We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,…
- Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force…
- Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and…
- I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious…
- Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most…
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