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Farewell Address

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To be an American citizen is to be a member of a nation founded on principles of justice, liberty, and equality.

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Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.

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I hope that I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

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