Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force.
The nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be.
The principles of justice and liberty must guide all government actions.
The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and hum...