Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
If the bill passes into a law, the two companies of light dragoons will be from that moment legally out of service.