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124. ADMINISTRATION, Fundamental Principles.—[continued].

Our wish is * * * that the
public efforts may be directed honestly to the
public good, that peace be cultivated, civil
and religious liberty unassailed, law and order
preserved, equality of rights maintained,
and that state of property, equal or unequal,
which results to every man from his own industry
or that of his fathers.—
Second Inaugural Address. Washington ed. viii, 44. Ford ed., viii, 347.
(1805)