Wherever A Ship Ploughs The Sea, Or

Honesty Is The Best Policy, Says The Familiar Axiom; But People Who Are Honest On That Principle Defraud No One But Themselves.

The Prosperity Which Now Prevails Is Without Parallel In Our History. Fruitful Seasons Have Done Much To Secure It, But They Have Not Done All. The Preservation Of The Public Credit And The Resumption Of Specie Payments, So Successfully Attained By The Administration Of My Predecessors, Have Enabled Our People To Secure The Blessings Which The Seasons Brought.

Light Itself Is A Great Corrective. A Thousand Wrongs And Abuses That Are Grown In Darkness Disappear, Like Owls And Bats, Before The Light Of Day.

I Have Had Many Troubles In My Life, But The Worst Of Them Never Came.

Territory Is But The Body Of A Nation. The People Who Inhabit Its Hills And Valleys Are Its Soul, Its Spirit, Its Life.