Inaugural Address
03/03/1805
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This candid and liberal experiment having thus failed, and no other event having occurred on which a suspension of the e...
to the end that the authority of the laws may be maintained
The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the legitimate responsibility of good government.
Our ministers at London and Paris were instructed to explain to the respective Governments there our disposition to exer...