 | Matthew Spalding, Patrick J. Garrity - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 244 pages
...to the accomplishments of their contracts."26) In pursuing public justice, Washington wrote, let a "cheerful performance of their proper business, as...earnestly inculcated on the Citizens of America." Washington had in mind to encourage private justice as the ground and model of public justice. Washington's... | |
 | Bruce Chadwick - History - 2005 - 595 pages
...nation be just, let us fulfill the public contracts, which Congress had undoubtedly a right to make for the purpose of carrying on the War, with the same...ourselves bound to perform our private engagements." As president, he was just as stern in his desire to pay the nation's bills, and the money owed all... | |
 | English literature - 1783 - 526 pages
...right to make for the purpofe of carrying on the war, with the fame good faith we fuppofe ourfelves bound to perform our private engagements. In the mean time let an attention to the chearful performance of their proper bufinefs, as individuals, and as members of fociety, be earneftly... | |
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Let us then, as a nation, be just ; let us fulfil the public contracts which Congress had undoubtedly a right to make for the purpose of carrying on the war, with the same good faith we suppose ourselves bound to perform our private engagements. 
