Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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The best and noblest form of government is that which is founded on the will of the people.
Those who have been blessed with the privileges of education should be the guardians of those privileges for the benefit...
The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different de...
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.