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Things to remember while reading an excerpt from President Washington's Farewell Address
Excerpt from President Washington's Farewell Address
The unity of Government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very Liberty , which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee, that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many Artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite...
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