Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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A government that governs least is best.
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
Freedom is the right to do anything that does not infringe upon the rights of others.
I hope that I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the ...