Addresses of the Successive Presidents to Both Houses of Congress, at the Opening of Each Session, with Their Answers: From the Commencement of the Present Government to January 1, 1805 : Together with the Inaugural Addresses During the Same Period, and the Farewell Address of George Washington |
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... regard for the public harmony , will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question , how far the former can be more impregnably fortified , or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted . To the preceding observations ...
... regard for the public harmony , will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question , how far the former can be more impregnably fortified , or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted . To the preceding observations ...
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... regard . Your resolution in a moment critical to the liberties of your country , to renounce all per- sonal emolument , was among the many presages of your patriotic services , which have been amply ful- filled ; and your scrupulous ...
... regard . Your resolution in a moment critical to the liberties of your country , to renounce all per- sonal emolument , was among the many presages of your patriotic services , which have been amply ful- filled ; and your scrupulous ...
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... regard . To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace . A free people ought not only to be armed , but dis- ciplined ; to which end a uniform and well - digested plan is requisite : And their safety and ...
... regard . To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace . A free people ought not only to be armed , but dis- ciplined ; to which end a uniform and well - digested plan is requisite : And their safety and ...
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... regard to economy . There was reason to hope , that the pacific mea- sures adopted with regard to certain hostile tribes of Indians , would have relieved the inhabitants of our southern and western frontiers from their depreda- tions ...
... regard to economy . There was reason to hope , that the pacific mea- sures adopted with regard to certain hostile tribes of Indians , would have relieved the inhabitants of our southern and western frontiers from their depreda- tions ...
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... regard affairs particularly recommended to your considera- tion , and necessary to convey to you that infor- mation of the state of the Union , which it is my duty to afford . · The welfare of our country is the great object to which ...
... regard affairs particularly recommended to your considera- tion , and necessary to convey to you that infor- mation of the state of the Union , which it is my duty to afford . · The welfare of our country is the great object to which ...
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Page xxxi - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression.
Page xviii - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.
Page vii - Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your National capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Page xix - Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence therefore it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships, or enmities: Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course.
Page xvi - It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Page xvii - The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Page iv - In the discharge of this trust, 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. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself...
Page v - I have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
Page vi - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation...
Page xii - ... in the most solemn manner, against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; 'but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.