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Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ? ✨ George Washington (1837). The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations, p.227
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