Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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Good governance demands the exercise of wisdom, patience, and courage.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
It is with peculiar satisfaction I can say, that prompted by a high sense of duty in my attendance on public worship, I ...