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Quotation from The Newburgh Address by George Washington
“had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.”
The Newburgh Address, Paragraph 11 (Mount Vernon transcript of the manuscript)
The closing sentence, imagining what posterity will say of officers who choose patience and patriotism over force.
Citation: "had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining." — George Washington, The Newburgh Address, Paragraph 11 (Mount Vernon transcript of the manuscript). (id newburgh-address-q5)
Portrait: George Washington, Gilbert Stuart, Public domain.
