George Washington, in Morton J. Frisch, Richard G. Stevens American Political Thought: The Philosophic Dimension of American Statesmanship, Transaction Publishers, 2011, p. 17.
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it is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens.

— George Washington on Indulgence

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "it is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens." in the context of "George Washington, in Morton J. Frisch, Richard G. Stevens American Political Thought: The Philosophic Dimension of American Statesmanship, Transaction Publishers, 2011, p. 17." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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George Washington

About George Washington

George Washington (22 February 1732 – 14 December 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in June 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and then served as president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which drafted and ratified the Constitution of the United States and established the American federal government. Washington has thus been called the "Father of his Country".