The safety of the United States under divine protection ought to rest on the basis of systematic and solid arrangements, exposed as little as possible to the hazards of fortuitous circumstances.
Third Annual Address to Congress
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None can serve it with purer intentions than I have done or with a more disinterested zeal.
Justice is the foundation of all laws and the cornerstone of a just society.
The nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be.
Those services, and greater had I possessed ability to render them, were due to the unanimous calls of my country, and its approbation is my abundant reward.
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