No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of Providential agency....     
                                                     – George Washington

     It having pleased the Almighty ruler of the Universe ... to defend the Cause of the United American-States and finally by raising up a powerful friend among the Princes of the Earth to establish our liberty and independence up[on] lasting foundations                
                                                     – George Washington

     The singular interpositions of Providence ... were such as could scarcely escape the attention of the most unobserving: while the unparalleled perseverence of the armies ... through almost every possible suffering and discouragement for the space of eight years was little short of a standing miracle. 
                                                     – George Washington