 | Lamin Sanneh - Religion - 2003 - 154 pages
...megalomania. "I have the consolation to believe," Washington said in his farewell address in 1796, "that while choice and prudence invite me to quit...political scene, patriotism does not forbid it." In the French case, a hard-edged secularism emerged and acquired a life of its own, with state jurisdiction... | |
 | Cokie Roberts - Social Science - 2004 - 385 pages
...his Farewell Address to the Philadelphia newspaper Daily Ameriean Adveriiser, with the explanation: "While choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it." The president never actually delivered the famous speech, which has come down in history as a collection... | |
 | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - History - 2005 - 270 pages
...and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to...forbid it. In looking forward to the moment, which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep... | |
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... every day the increasing- weight of years admonishes me, more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, I... 
