Fourth Annual Address to Congress
11/05/1792
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence—it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never ...
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render every one his due.
Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.