...perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes...shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will he weleome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my services they were...

...perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes...peculiar value to my services, they were temporary, 1 have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene,...

...megalomania. "I have the consolation to believe," Washington said in his farewell address in 1796, "that while choice and prudence invite me to quit...the 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...

...still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and everyday the increasing weight of years admonishes me more...peculiar value to my services they were temporary. 1 have the consolation to believe that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene,...

...and determination in so many struggles. Catherine was particularly moved when Washington wrote, ".../ have the consolation to believe, that while choice...and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotizm does not forbid it." She could almost hear her father saying the same thing, and tears welled...

...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...

...perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes...the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it. In looking forward to the moment, which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings...

...leadership, politics, and process clear in his resignation speech when he reiterates his decision to retire, "satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar...political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.""' The relations between the authority and power of individual sovereigns and those of bounded collectivities...

...leadership, politics, and process clear in his resignation speech when he reiterates his decision to retire, "satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar...quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it."16 The relations between the authority and power of individual sovereigns and those of bounded...

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