Read the passage.
excerpt from Washington's Farewell Address, published
in the Philadelphia Daily American Advertiser, September
19, 1796
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is
also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the
edifice of your real independence, the support of your
tranquility at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your
prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize. 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;
as this is the point in your political fortress against which the
batteries of internal and external enemies will be most
constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously)
directed, it 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, accustoming
yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your
Which quotation from this passage best expresses the concept
that every citizen's well-being depends on a unified government
and protecting it is of the highest importance?
"The name of American, which belongs to you in
your national capacity, must always exalt the just
pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived
from local discriminations."
"You have in a common cause fought and triumphed
together."
"The unity of government which constitutes you one
people is also now dear to you."
...for it is it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real
independence, the support of your tranquility at
home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your
prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly
prize."