Veto Message
02/27/1797
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Satisfied, therefore, that you have sincerely wished and endeavored to avert war, and exhausted to the last drop the cup...
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Those services, and greater had I possessed ability to render them, were due to the unanimous calls of my country, and i...
Believe me, sir, no one can more cordially approve of the wise and prudent measures of your Administration.