Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette
01/01/1785
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The strength of a nation lies in the unity and integrity of its people.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
Those who have been blessed with the privileges of education should be the guardians of those privileges for the benefit...
Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.