"Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution."
— George Washington

January 1, 1970

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Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I of France), as quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions (1937) by Maud Van Buren