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By George Washington
…And since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
- Source
- First Inaugural Address: Final Version, April 30, 1789 · The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 2, pp. 173-177
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- Founders Online, National Archives
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Washington's first inaugural address, given in New York on April 30, 1789, to the Senate and the House of Representatives. This is part of a longer sentence that begins earlier in the paragraph, so the quotation opens with an ellipsis.