Special Message
12/06/1792
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A nation that values its freedom must also value its education and its institutions.
I hope that I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the ...
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
The power of the government comes from the consent of the governed.