Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irr…

George Washington
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of ⟨the present⟩ age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this Kind. ✨ George Washington's Letter to Edward Newenham, founders.archives.gov. June 22, 1792.
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