"Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics."
"When there is no vision, there is no hope."
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Source: George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.324
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