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9001. WASHINGTON (George), Confidence in.—

Without pretensions to that high
confidence you reposed in our first and greatest
revolutionary character, whose preeminent services
had entitled him to the first place in his
country's love, and destined for him the fairest
page in the volume of faithful history, I ask
so much confidence only as may give firmness
and effect to the legal administration of your
affairs.—
First Inaugural Address. Washington ed. viii, 5. Ford ed., viii, 5.
(1801)