Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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The best and noblest form of government is that which is founded on the will of the people.
If the bill passes into a law, the two companies of light dragoons will be from that moment legally out of service.
Satisfied, therefore, that you have sincerely wished and endeavored to avert war, and exhausted to the last drop the cup...
Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.