Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | | NUMBER: | 1706 | AUTHOR: | George Washington (173299) | QUOTATION: | Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle. | ATTRIBUTION: | Attributed to GEORGE WASHINGTON.John Bernard, Retrospections of America, 17971811, p. 91 (1887). This is from Bernards account of a conversation he had with Washington in 1798. Unverified. | SUBJECTS: | Slavery | |
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