Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
A good government must be founded on the principle of justice and liberty for all its citizens.
The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different de...
I must not conceal from you my earnest wish that the choice had fallen upon a man less declined in years and better qual...