Washington: A Life
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“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
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“The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind.”66
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“Gentlemen, you must pardon me,” he said. “I have grown gray in your service and now find myself growing blind.”
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The Americans are a curious, original people. They know how to govern themselves, but nobody else can govern them.”