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It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.   Washington, George

Source: GEORGE WASHINGTON, remarks at the first Continental Congress, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1787.Max Farrand, The Framing of the Constitution of the United States, p. 66 .Washington was the presiding officer. · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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