Today we honor President George Washington and his legacy.
No American was more integral to the nation’s establishment and survival than Washington, and no American has meant more to the nation throughout its history.
Washington led a revolution to establish a republic in which no man was indispensable, a government of “laws, not of men.”
This is ironic because Washington himself was the exception to that rule — he was truly America’s indispensable man, without whom the young republic would have crashed and burned.
First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.