Zenmaster George

The Correspondence of George Washington: Fodder for Fortune Cookies

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@nprscottsimon Jane Addams also Liberty Ship (0635 - Jane Addams - WSAT AP USAT) my grandfather shipped out on her in August 1944.

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Weigh every circumstance of attack, and retreat properly, that nothing that can be guarded against, may be unprovided for. GW 12/14/76

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your scruples and difficulties, so often reiterated and under a variety of Shapes, are exceedingly perplexing to me and I wish them to cease

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General Conway's merit...as an Officer, and his importance in this Army, exists more in his own imagination, than in reality GW to RH Lee 77

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"I wish to Heaven the expected reinforcements were joind, (under the rose I say it)" GW to RHH 1/20/1777

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A compleat Corps is more to be depended upon than one composed of detachments - GW to E Dayton 5/31/1780

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"the natural sloth of one Court, and the intrigues and artifices of the other, will keep things in a state of negotiation" GW 7/29/19

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The spirit for emigration is great, people have got impatient, and tho' you cannot stop the road, it is yet in your power to mark the way

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"a people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove" - GW to Lord Stirling 1/19/1777

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"I shall not be at all surprised if there should be a general wreck of everything" - GW to JP Custis 1/21779

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"A-ms I wou'd beg leave to add, should be the last resource; the denier resort. " GW to G Mason 4/5/1769

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Zenmaster George ponders the inevitable: "The approaching Frosts will effectually stop the Blasts of our Furnaces" GW to JM Varnum 10/31/77

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"May our Country never want props to support the glorious fabrick!"- GW to T Jefferson 8/1/1786

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Example whether it be good or bad has a powerful influence - GW to Lord Stirling 3/5/1780

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your conduct is so full of inconsistency and unsteadiness that you render every attempt of your Trustee's, to serve you, abortive.12/15/1770

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"nothing but our want of exertions can probably blast the pleasing prospects before us." GW in Gen'l Orders 9/6/1781

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"imaginary wants are indefinite and oftentimes insatiable, because they are boundless and always changing" GW to JA Washington 1/16/1783

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"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder" GW to Major-General Robert Howe August 17, 1779

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he is capable of all the malignity of detraction, and all the meanesses of intrigue, to gratify the absurd resentment of disappointed vanity

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"...every hour brings fresh proofs that the most dangerous delays are entailed upon all our measures." GW to C. Scott 6/28/1779