 And can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence....  Chronicle of the conquest of Granada - Side 1684av Washington Irving - 1859Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
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...as the "mere Politician."13 Reiterating the basic point later in the speech, he asks rhetorically, "Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?"14 Here in the Farewell Address, Washington acknowledges that a full "volume could not trace... | |
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