First Annual Address
01/08/1793
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The foundation of our national policy will be laid on the solid basis of the people's will.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence—it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never ...
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.