"In God We Trust...."

[Jonathan Lighter]

If this isn't an antedating, it's still worth knowing about:

1877 _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_ (Aug. 20) 4 [ProQuest]: An up-town grocer's
motto: "In God we trust - everybody else cash."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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