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George Washington: An Initial Biography is a 1949 children's book written and illustrated by Genevieve Foster about the life of George Washington, the first President of the United States. Though written in simple language, the biography has been described as comprehensive and scrupulously authentic. The book was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1950.
“Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.”
“In the last place, though first in importance I shall ask—is there any thing doing, or that can be done to restore the credit of our currency? The depreciation of it is got to so alarming a point—that a waggon load of money will scarcely purchase a waggon load of provision.”
“Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.”
“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.”
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence,—it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
“America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.”
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