A Man's Diary Is A Record In

No Book In The World Deserves To Be So Unceasingly Studied, And So Profoundly Meditated Upon As The Bible.

The Origin Of The Political Relations Between The United States And France Is Coeval With The First Years Of Our Independence. The Memory Of It Is Interwoven With That Of Our Arduous Struggle For National Existence. Weakened As It Has Occasionally Been Since That Time, It Can By Us Never Be Forgotten, And We Should Hail With Exultation The Moment Which Should Indicate A Recollection Equally Friendly In Spirit On The Part Of France.

To Preserve, To Improve, And To Perpetuate The Sources And To Direct In Their Most Effective Channels The Streams Which Contribute To The Public Weal Is The Purpose For Which Government Was Instituted.

Life Is A Problem; Mortal Man Was Made To Solve The Solemn Problem Right Or Wrong.

The Firmest Security Of Peace Is The Preparation During Peace Of The Defenses Of War.