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"The name of George Washington, rendered sacred by the gratitude of the American people and by the admiration of the world, shall shine with renewed glory time and time again, because with every new generation, the number of men who acknowledge the principle that their happiness derives from the virtues of this man is sure to grow. The republic that he fathered has already become the largest society of free men that the world has ever seen. A people disseminated on a land, which is five hundred times as large as Switzerland, in just a few years and under freedom’s umbrella, witnessed its numbers increase by tenfold.
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