For Mr. Washington
PHOTOGRAPHER Ayasha Guerin
BRIGHT YOUNG THING Joanna Karaman
LOCATION Valley Forge, the site of Washington’s 1777-78 winter encampment of the Continental Army
WORDS ARE George Washington’s (happy 4th of July)
“I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.”
“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.”
“Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
“Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.”
“It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity;but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.”
