Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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None can serve it with purer intentions than I have done or with a more disinterested zeal.
A nation that values its freedom must also value its education and its institutions.
Those services, and greater had I possessed ability to render them, were due to the unanimous calls of my country, and i...
Good governance demands the exercise of wisdom, patience, and courage.