[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. ✨ Ge…

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[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. ✨ George Washington (1855). Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious, p.308
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[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. ✨ George Washington (1855). Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious, p.308

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