I Have Myself, For Many Years, Made

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.

Try And Fail,but Don't Fail To Try.

My Hopes Of A Future Life Are All Founded Upon The Gospel Of Christ And I Cannot Cavil Or Quibble Away... The Whole Tenor Of His Conduct By Which He Sometimes Positively Asserted And At Others Countenances His Disciples In Asserting That He Was God.

I Want The Seals Of Power And Place, The Ensigns Of Command, Charged By The People's Unbought Grace, To Rule My Native Land. Nor Crown, Nor Scepter Would I Ask But From My Country's Will, By Day, By Night, To Ply The Task Her Cup Of Bliss To Fill.

The Highest Glory Of The American Revolution Was This: It Connected In One Indissoluble Bond The Principles Of Civil Government With The Principles Of Christianity.