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Washington, like most scholarly Virginians of his time, was a Deist... Contemporary evidence shows that in mature life Washington was a Deist, and did not commune, which is quite consistent with his being a vestryman. In England, where vestries have secular functions, it is not unusual for Unitarians to vestrymen, there being no doctrinal subscription required for that office. Washington's letters during the Revolution occasionally indicate his recognition of the hand of Providence in notable public events, but in the thousands of his letters I have never been able to find the name of Christ or any reference to him.

{Conway was employed to edit Washington's letters} ~ Moncure D. Conway
Virginians quotes by Moncure D. Conway
Virginians were nice, they confided to each other, if caught singly. Two Virginians, of course, talked horses. ~ Isabel Scott Rorick
Virginians quotes by Isabel Scott Rorick
Why, I've seen Kentuckians who hated whiskey, Virginians who weren't descended from Pocahontas, Indianians who hadn't written a novel, Mexicans who didn't wear velvet trousers with silver dollars sewed along the seams, funny Englishmen, spendthrift Yankees, cold-blooded Southerners, narrow- minded Westerners, and New Yorkers who were too busy to stop for an hour on the street to watch a one-armed grocer's clerk do up cranberries in paper bags. Let a man be a man and don't handicap him with the label of any section. ~ O. Henry
Virginians quotes by O. Henry
The Virginians of the mountains, and of the broad valley of the Shenandoah River just beyond, were a different breed. ~ James L. Haley
Virginians quotes by James L. Haley
I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right. ~ Tim Kaine
Virginians quotes by Tim Kaine
Virginians want you to work across the aisle. ~ Tim Kaine
Virginians quotes by Tim Kaine
That there would be a political advantage in having the declaration written by a Virginian was clear, for the same reason there had been political advantage in having the Virginian Washington in command of the army. But be that as it may, Jefferson, with his "peculiar felicity of expression," as Adams said, was the best choice for the task, just as Washington had been the best choice to command the Continental Army, and again Adams had played a key part. Had his contributions as a member of Congress been only that of casting the two Virginians in their respective, fateful roles, his service to the American cause would have been very great. ~ David McCullough
Virginians quotes by David McCullough
By 1770, fewer than 10 percent of white Virginians laid claim to over half the land in the colony; a small upper echelon of large planters each owned slaves in the hundreds. More than half of white men owned no land at all, working as tenants or hired laborers, or contracted as servants. ~ Nancy Isenberg
Virginians quotes by Nancy Isenberg
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you. ~ William Faulkner
Virginians quotes by William Faulkner
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! ~ Patrick Henry
Virginians quotes by Patrick Henry
I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole! ~ Robin Williams
Virginians quotes by Robin Williams
We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration. ~ Douglas Southall Freeman
Virginians quotes by Douglas Southall Freeman
If you think looking at three hundred boiling-mad, half-cocked Virginians holding every kind of breechloader under God's sun staring back at you with murder in their eyes is a ticket to redemption, you is on the dot. ~ James McBride
Virginians quotes by James McBride
They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things. ~ Margaret Mitchell
Virginians quotes by Margaret Mitchell
Washington departed the planet as admirably as he had inhabited it. He had long hated slavery, even though he had profited from it. Now, in his will, he stipulated that his slaves should be emancipated after Martha's death, and he set aside funds for slaves who would be either too young or too old to care for themselves. Of the nine American presidents who owned slaves - a list that includes his fellow Virginians Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe - only Washington set free all of his slaves. Washington ~ Ron Chernow
Virginians quotes by Ron Chernow
Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today. ~ John Sergeant Wise
Virginians quotes by John Sergeant Wise
Virginians! With me! Who will come with me!? ~ Lewis Armistead
Virginians quotes by Lewis Armistead
So great was the quest for patronage that Lincoln came to hope that Southerners would never leave the Union and abandon the plum government jobs they might retain if they remained loyal. As he joked rather cynically to the Ohio editor and politician Donn Piatt over a chicken dinner at the Lincoln home: "Were it believed that vacant places could be had at the North Pole, the road there would be lined with dead Virginians. ~ Harold Holzer
Virginians quotes by Harold Holzer
The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy. ~ Jubal Early
Virginians quotes by Jubal Early
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