Special Message
05/01/1796
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It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
The prosperity of a nation depends on the integrity of its institutions.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
I hope that I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the ...