Message in Reply to the Senate
11/21/1794
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The nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be.
Those services, and greater had I possessed ability to render them, were due to the unanimous calls of my country, and i...
Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force.