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Rh [To .] The right of the people is the right to cast aside personal interests for the greater good of the nation. The only safety for any people is in a government that can command the respect of the world.

Rh

[Angrily.] You mean a Monarchy?

I mean a Republic.

[Rising, coming to  corner of table and pounding it.] George Washington is trying to set up a Monarchy and make himself King.

[Rising and crossing to  with .] Take this chair. I think you'll be more comfortable.

[Ignoring the chair.] Suppose the government should pay the states' debts, the men who lent the money wouldn't get it. [ about to interrupt.] You know as well as I do that the patriots who put up the money to carry on the war have long ago given up all hope of ever being paid by the bankrupt states.