America Does Not Go Abroad In Search

From The Experience Of The Past We Derive Instructive Lessons For The Future.

I Have Made It A Practice For Several Years To Read The Bible Through In The Course Of Every Year. I Usually Devote To This Reading The First Hour After I Rise Every Morning. As, Including The Apocrypha, It Contains About Fourteen Hundred Chapters, And As I Meet With Occasional Interruptions, When This Reading Is For Single Days, And Sometimes For Weeks, Or Even Months, Suspended, My Rule Is To Read Five Chapters Every Morning, Which Leaves An Allowance Of About One-forth Of The Time For Such Interruptions.

I Shall Look For Whatever Success May Attend My Public Service; And Knowing That "except The Lord Keep The City The Watchman Waketh But In Vain," With Fervent Supplications For His Favor, To His Overruling Providence I Commit With Humble But Fearless Confidence My Own Fate And The Future Destinies Of My Country.

I Cannot Ask Of Heaven Success, Even For My Country, In A Cause Where She Should Be In The Wrong.

Nip The Shoots Of Arbitrary Power In The Bud, Is The Only Maxim Which Can Ever Preserve The Liberties Of Any People.