I have not by this first act given to the said territory the whole extent of which it is susceptible in the direction of the river, because I thought it important that Congress should have an opportunity of considering whether by an amendatory law they would authorize the location of the residue at the lower end of the present.
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To such men I shall cheerfully yield the palm of genius and talents to serve our common country.
It will be inconvenient and injurious to the public to dismiss the light dragoons as soon as notice of the law can be conveyed to them.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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