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A Treatise on Monetary Reform, Monetary Realist Society 1982, S. 5
Original engl.: "[..] I am sanguine in the belief of the possibility that we may one day become a great commercial and flourishing nation. But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit in its infancy."
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„Wer auf den Krieg vorbereitet ist, kann den Frieden am Besten wahren.“
Original engl.: To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. - First Annual Address, to both Houses of Congress, 8. Januar 1790 (in Anspielung auf das Lateinische "Si vis pacem para bellum".)
„Habe begonnen, die männlichen von den weiblichen Hanfpflanzen zu trennen… fast schon zu spät.“
Tagebucheintrag, 7. August 1765
Abschiedsbotschaft, 1796, zitiert nach: Avalon Project, Washington's Farewell Address 1796 http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp <br class="br">Original engl.: "Let me now [..] warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally."
