Warning against false patriotism.
09/18/1796
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None can serve it with purer intentions than I have done or with a more disinterested zeal.
Those services, and greater had I possessed ability to render them, were due to the unanimous calls of my country, and its approbation is my...
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force.
The best and noblest form of government is that which is founded on the will of the people.