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“We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Address at the Washington Centennial Service in St. Paul's Chapel, New York, April 30, 1889.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f496178472f2cd9dbe10867bb3182cae9f682b26bfa4f7e6f4587a2ce3fb35b6
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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