Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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The strength of a nation is its people.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and hum...