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Originally Posted by Ferran
I assume you want me to name a serious source... However, the nearest I can find to such a thing is a famous quote-compilator website in which this sentence appears.
George Washington quotes
There are also many blogs and websites using this quote, but I think that they all took it from there, so now the thing would be to ask this site where did they find it. |
It wasn't necessary to go to all the trouble.
Thanks for the research on it though.
The interesting quote is probably real. The person at the article below uses a quote much like it and says it was from a letter between George Washington and Lafayette.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/content...es/PDF/344.pdf