crhoades
11-28-2007, 09:21 AM
Great quote I received this morning:
The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily
"My ardent desire is, and my aim has been...to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic; but to keep the U States free from political connections with every other Country.
To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none. In a word, I want an American character, that the powers of Europe may be convinced we act for ourselves and not for others; this, in my judgment, is the only way to be respected abroad and happy at home."
-- George Washington (letter to Partick Henry, 9 October 1775)
Reference: The Writings of George Washington, Fitzpatrick, ed., vol. 34 (335)
The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily
"My ardent desire is, and my aim has been...to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic; but to keep the U States free from political connections with every other Country.
To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none. In a word, I want an American character, that the powers of Europe may be convinced we act for ourselves and not for others; this, in my judgment, is the only way to be respected abroad and happy at home."
-- George Washington (letter to Partick Henry, 9 October 1775)
Reference: The Writings of George Washington, Fitzpatrick, ed., vol. 34 (335)