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.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and hum...
Those who are well informed about their rights and duties make the best citizens.