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“I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
— John Adams
2nd President of the United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt had this inscribed on the mantlepiece of the State Dining Room
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