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Humility Quotes
[…] I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable....
Religion Quotes
Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave, as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that you...
Politics Quotes
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility...
Freedom Quotes
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment. (8.1)
Principles Quotes
I constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power […] to return to that retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn […] but mature reflection on the then perplexed and...
Patriotism Quotes
[…] my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved country for the many honors it has conferred upon me; still more for the st...