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Subject: I read this quote a few days ago.. thought it was worth remembering..

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Kris

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Date Posted: 09:24:41 03/16/03 Sun

George Washington wrote it in April, 1783 about a reluctant Congress. Made me think of the current political situation:

"This is the moment when the eyes of the whole world are turned upon them; this is the moment to establish or ruin their national character forever; this is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our federal government as will enable it to answer the ends of its instituition; or this maybe the ill-fated moment for relaxing the powers of the union, annihilating the cement of the confederation and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one state against another, to prevent their growing importance and to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of policy the states shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall; and by their confirmation or lapse it is yet to be decided whether the Revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse- a blessing or a curse, not to the present age alone, for with our fate will be the destiny of unborn millions be involved."

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