In thus employing my best faculties to exercise the power with which I am invested to avoid evils and to effect the greatest attainable good for our common country I feel that I may trust to your cordial cooperation.
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It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.
The paper money system of this country may be used as an engine to undermine your free institutions.
It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles.
There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.
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