Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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Each citizen must contribute to the common defense, which is the foundation of our security.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence—it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never ...
The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and hum...
The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.