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George Washington: “A nation must be built on principles of fairness and justice.”

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Farewell Address

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Satisfied, therefore, that you have sincerely wished and endeavored to avert war, and exhausted to the last drop the cup of reconciliation, we can with pure hearts appeal to Heaven for the justice of our cause.

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