Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and hum...
Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.
The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different de...