“30 Proposition. The marke of the Romane beast, is that invisible profession of servitude and obedience, that his subjects hath professed to his Empire, since the first beginning thereof, noted afterward by the Pope, with divers visible markes.”

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise

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Letter to Major-General John Sullivan (15 December 1779), published in The Writings of George Washington (1890) by Worthington Chauncey Ford, Vol. 8, p. 139
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Context: A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 66

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Source: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. 7

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise