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“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step… seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.”

 

George Washington • American Founder, First President

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“The sacred rights of mankind are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of Divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”

 

Alexander Hamilton • American “Founding Father”

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“I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men! And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid.”

 

Benjamin Franklin • American Founder, Statesman, Inventor