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He reflects on his service in organizing and administering the government, acknowledges the temporary nature of any special value of his efforts, and emphasizes the essential role of public confidence. He then turns to counsel on preserving the Constitution, unity, and liberty, urging careful stewardship so the people’s happiness endures and earns international respect.","President George Washington's Farewell Address  \n1796  \nFriends and Fellow Citizens:  \nThe period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made.  \nI beg you, at the same time, to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country; and that in withdrawing the tender of service, which silence in my situation might imply, Iam influenced by no diminution of zeal foryour future interest, no deficiency of grateful respect foryour past kindness, but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both.  \nThe acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which your suffrages have twice called me have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty and to a deference for what appeared tobe your desire. I constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motives which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn. The strength of my inclination to do this, previous to the last election, had even led to the preparation of an address to declare it to you; but mature reflection on the then perplexed and critical posture of our affairs with foreign nations, and the unanimous advice ofpersons entitled to my confidence, impelled me to abandon the idea.  \nI rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety, and am persuaded, whatever partiality may be retained for my services, that, in the present circumstances of our country, you will not disapprove my determination to retire.  \nThe impressions with which I first undertook the arduous trust were explained on the proper occasion. 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; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as itwill be welcome. Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value tomy services, they were temporary, I have the consolation to believe that, while choice andprudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.  \nIn 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 acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved country for the many honors it has conferred upon me; still more for the steadfast confidence with which it has supported me; and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my  \ninviolable attachment, by services faithful and persevering, though in usefulness unequal to my zeal. 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