Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence—it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never ...
The nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be.
I lay before you for your consideration a treaty which has been negotiated and concluded on the 29th day of June last by...
It will be inconvenient and injurious to the public to dismiss the light dragoons as soon as notice of the law can be co...