“We had quitters during the Revolution too… we called them "Kentuckians."”

— George Washington

This attribution apparently originated with a statement of a cartoon version of Washington on an episode http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701155/quotes of The Simpsons. Though not initially presented as a genuine quote this has sometimes been attributed to Washington. <br class="br">Misattributed, Spurious attributions

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