Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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The rights of individuals must be protected against infringement by the state.
The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and hum...
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoy...