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.
A nation is only as strong as its moral character.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence—it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never ...
Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.