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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... produced it , I must decline as inappli- cable to myself , any share in the personal emoluments , which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department ; and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary ...
... produced it , I must decline as inappli- cable to myself , any share in the personal emoluments , which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department ; and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary ...
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... produces emo- tions which I know not how to express . I feel that my past endeavours in the service of my country are far overpaid by its goodness ; and I fear much that my future ones may not fulfil your kind anticipation . All that I ...
... produces emo- tions which I know not how to express . I feel that my past endeavours in the service of my country are far overpaid by its goodness ; and I fear much that my future ones may not fulfil your kind anticipation . All that I ...
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... producing them at home ; and of facilitating the intercourse between the distant parts of our country , by a due attention to the post office and post roads . Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion , that there ...
... producing them at home ; and of facilitating the intercourse between the distant parts of our country , by a due attention to the post office and post roads . Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion , that there ...
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... producing them at home ; the facilitating the communication between the distant parts of our country , by means of the post office and post roads ; a provision for the sup- port of the department of foreign affairs , and a uni- form ...
... producing them at home ; the facilitating the communication between the distant parts of our country , by means of the post office and post roads ; a provision for the sup- port of the department of foreign affairs , and a uni- form ...
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... interesting to both of these great objects . Our fisheries , and the transportation of our own produce , offer us abundant means for guard- ing ourselves against this evil . Your attention seems to be not less due to that ( 24 )
... interesting to both of these great objects . Our fisheries , and the transportation of our own produce , offer us abundant means for guard- ing ourselves against this evil . Your attention seems to be not less due to that ( 24 )
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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.