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Incapable of self-delusion, the Founding Fathers found the crisis of their time to be equally grave, and yet they had confidence that America would surmount it and that a republic of free peoples would prosper and serve as an example to a world aching for liberty.
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* Holmes, David L. The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, May 2006, online version
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