Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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None can serve it with purer intentions than I have done or with a more disinterested zeal.
I can not express how greatly affected I am at this new proof of public confidence.
Those services, and greater had I possessed ability to render them, were due to the unanimous calls of my country, and i...
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence—it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never ...