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...echoes today. On April 30, 1789, in his first Inaugural Address as the first US president, he said, "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and...the destiny of the republican model of government, are...entrusted to the hands of the American people." For us as 21st-century Americans, the objectives...

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...first president, George Washington, warned us about this in his first inaugural address, when he said: "the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected...order and right which Heaven itself has ordained." Then, in his farewell address, he said, "reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national...

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...deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted" to America, the government must abide by "the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained." For "there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the ceconomy and course...