Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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A nation that values its freedom must also value its education and its institutions.
To such men I shall cheerfully yield the palm of genius and talents to serve our common country.
The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and hum...
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence—it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never ...