First Annual Address
04/29/1792
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The strength of a nation lies in the unity and integrity of its people.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
I hope that I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the ...
None can serve it with purer intentions than I have done or with a more disinterested zeal.