George Washington on National Happiness

Posted on February 3, 2006
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“Your love of liberty – your respect for the laws – your habits of industry – and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.” – George Washington (letter to the Residents of Boston, 27 October 1789)

Reference: Maxims of George Washington, Schroeder, ed. (139)

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