Some really good questions here

[LuckyTheDog]

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"Is the paltry consideration of a little dirty pelf to individuals to be placed in competition keeping with the essential rights and liberties of the present generation, and of millions yet unborn? Shall a few designing men for their own aggrandizement, and to gratify their own avarice, overset the goodly fabric we have been rearing at the expense of so much time, blood and treasure? And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust for gain?" -- George Washington

[SharonAnn]

1. Good quote, but "pelf"??? OK, definition below.

pelf n.

Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired. [Middle English, from Medieval Latin pelfra, pelfa , probably from Old French pelfre.

[LuckyTheDog]

2. Well, it WAS the 18th century (nt)

[DirkGently]

3. Good speech, George.

[dimbear]

4. He was one of the richest men in the colonies, but he obtained it honestly. He

married it.

[LuckyTheDog]

5. And inherited a bit (nt)