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By George Washington
…there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the œconomy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity…
- 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. The quotation starts and ends in the middle of a longer sentence, so it is marked with ellipses.