In farewell address, which of the following sentences from the
excerpt best supports washington's belief that national unity is of the
highest importance?
12
"but as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and
from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many
artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of
this truth; "
15
"citizens, by birth or choice of a common country, that country
has a right to concentrate your affections.
" is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the
immense value of your national union to your collective and
individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual.
and immovable attachment to it; "
" am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future
interest, no deficiency of grateful respect for your past
kindness, but am supported by a full conviction that the step is
compatible with both."