[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17492]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                GEORGE WASHINGTON'S RESIGNATION ADDRESS

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. We heard our President say that we're not a Christian 
Nation--and he may be right, but for those like the President whose 
education was lacking a great deal in the fullness of our history, I 
wanted to refer to the greatest resignation of all times.
  When George Washington led the military in the Revolution, he did 
what no man has ever done before or since--won the Revolution and 
resigned and went home.
  In his resolution, the last paragraph on this document said, ``I now 
make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over 
which you preside, in His holy protection, that He would incline the 
hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and 
obedience to government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love 
for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States, and 
particularly for the brethren who have served in the field; and 
finally, that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to 
do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, 
humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of 
the divine author of our blessed religion, and without a humble 
imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a 
happy Nation.''
  That was George Washington.

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