Special Message
12/11/1791
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence—it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never ...
Those services, and greater had I possessed ability to render them, were due to the unanimous calls of my country, and i...
The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and hum...
It will be inconvenient and injurious to the public to dismiss the light dragoons as soon as notice of the law can be co...