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The version of the quote that widely circulated online was shortened and simplified, but it accurately preserved the meaning of Washington's original words as delivered in a March 15, 1783, speech.

But that’s not what our forefathers had in mind when they made Washington’s Birthday a formal holiday. Every third Monday in February, the nation honors its first president, George ...

As commander in chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, George Washington recruited untrained colonial forces for six years until the surrender of the British in October 1781.

Thomas Jefferson’s slave-owning legacy has been covered in the news lately; however, the biggest slave owner among the four men was the father of our country, George Washington. Washington and ...

America’s first president George Washington addressed the assembled Congress with the first State of the Union on this day in history, Jan. 8, 1790. Washington’s address took place at Federal ...