Special Message
06/24/1795
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Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different de...
The nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be.