No wonder they want to abolish the Second Amendment and the entire Constitution...😎
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I'm not a happy camper about this, but the plaque seems to have been edited in the making. Here is a fact-check that appears to be legitimate. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-washington-arms-idUSKBN23Q2FT
Sarcasm?
Reuters?
Kek...?
No. Just a desire not to be hornswoggled. Washington was good enough, we don't need to misquote him.
It is also quite possible that the original source never survived except by word of mouth. Just because he starts another speech somewhere in the same manner does not disprove it either or mean that it was manipulated. They may be different quotes entirely on separate occasions. I personally would not be calling out the dangers of misquoting Washington that people should not lie as in disproving the cherry tree saying. If a kid reading that quote admires Washington and vows to never lie because of it more power to him. I could think of a million better ways to spend my time than tearing down legends of valor. It seems Washington's library is being run by leftists. To prove all their refutations of serious quotes by Washington they end their article with recent Bart Simpson quotes from Simpson episodes, as if our country has always been a nation of buffoons.
The source of Reuters fact checking with the Simpson stuff is here https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/spurious-quotations/
I am no fan of Reuters and have faulted them elsewhere. But in this case, they have the original quotation:
"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies."
It is my understanding that this page is devoted to truth-seeking, not bias or myth confirmation. I would be delighted for Reuters to be proven wrong---so have at it!