Message in Reply to the Senate
12/11/1796
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Those who are well informed about their rights and duties make the best citizens.
Those who have been blessed with the privileges of education should be the guardians of those privileges for the benefit...
I hope that I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the ...
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.