"To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny."
— Evil speaking

January 1, 1970

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George Washington, letter to William Livingston (December 7, 1779), reported in Theodore Sedgwick, A Memoire of the Life of William Livingston (1833), p. 343.