Quote#Peace
If you tell the Legislatures they have violated the treaty of peace…
Quote byGeorge Washington · 1732–1799
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to John Jay (15 August 1786).
English (original)
If you tell the Legislatures they have violated the treaty of peace and invaded the prerogatives of the confederacy they will laugh in your face. What then is to be done? Things cannot go on in the same train forever.
— George Washington
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