Special Message
01/01/1795
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
The nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be.
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
A well-informed citizenry is essential to a functioning democracy.
Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.