America Does Not Go Abroad In Search

A Man's Diary Is A Record In Youth Of His Sentiments, In Middle Age Of His Actions, In Old Age Of His Reflections.

Courage And Perseverance Have A Magical Talisman, Before Which Difficulties Disappear And Obstacles Vanish Into Air. These Qualities Have Ever Been Displayed In Their Mightiest Perfection, As Attendants In The Retinue Of Strong Passions.

I Appear, My Fellow-citizens, In Your Presence And In That Of Heaven To Bind Myself By The Solemnities Of Religious Obligation To The Faithful Performance Of The Duties Allotted To Me In The Station To Which I Have Been Called.

America... Goes Not Abroad, In Search Of Monsters To Destroy. She Is The Well-wisher To The Freedom And Independence Of All.

I Want A Warm And Faithful Friend, To Cheer The Adverse Hour; Who Ne'er To Flatter Will Descend, Nor Bend The Knee To Power,- A Friend To Chide Me When I'm Wrong, My Inmost Soul To See; And That My Friendship Prove As Strong For Him As His For Me.