Farewell Address
09/18/1796
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The nation that expects to be ignorant and free, expects what never was and never will be.
It will be inconvenient and injurious to the public to dismiss the light dragoons as soon as notice of the law can be co...
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.