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.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Freedom is the right to do anything that does not infringe upon the rights of others.
The prosperity of a nation depends on the integrity of its institutions.