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First and Second Inaugurals George Washington
Tags: Current Focus, Renewal America, Renewal Europe, Leadership Skills, Renewal India, Australia, United States, Canada, France, Germany, European Union, China, Japan, India, Britain, Inequality / Upward Mobility, Movement for Renewal of America, Diversity, Education, 7. Democracy Support Action, 9. The Movement for Global Literacy, 10. Health- Body/Mind Wellbeing for All ,
To truly grasp George Washington's thinking about "the preservation of the Republican form of government as justly considered deeply, perhaps finally staked in the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people," one has to look at his Draft of the First Inaugural Address, 1789. We could not access this on either the Library of Congress or National Archives sites.
George Washington said in this Draft-
"I rejoice in the belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth, that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct, that mankind will reverse the absurd position that many were made for the few."
"If the blessings of heaven showered thick around us should be spilled on the ground or converted to curses, through the fault of whom they were intended, it would not be the first instance of folly or perverseness in short-sighted mortals... that no mound of parchment can be formed to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."
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