Good and gracious God, in a world ripe with distrust and hatred, we pray that You would come and fill us with Your peace. Help us to trust in You. May we live in love and unity with all of our brothers and sisters. It is only in You that we come to see the true beauty and dignity of all humanity, especially those who are most forgotten and often discarded by our society. We pray this in Your most holy name.
Amen.
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature.
—George Washington
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