Special Message
01/18/1791
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Believe me, sir, no one can more cordially approve of the wise and prudent measures of your Administration.
The nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be.
It is with peculiar satisfaction I can say, that prompted by a high sense of duty in my attendance on public worship, I ...
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.