Advice on international relations.
09/18/1796
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An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.
None can serve it with purer intentions than I have done or with a more disinterested zeal.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence—it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never ...