Special Message
03/06/1792
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Good government is built on the principles of justice and equality.
None can serve it with purer intentions than I have done or with a more disinterested zeal.
I lay before you for your consideration a treaty which has been negotiated and concluded on the 29th day of June last by...
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.