Courage And Perseverance Have A Magical Talisman,

America Does Not Go Abroad In Search Of Monsters To Destroy. She Is The Well-wisher To Freedom And Independence Of All. She Is The Champion And Vindicator Only Of Her Own. Sir Anthony Hopkins Portrayal Of Me Was Adequate. I Do Believe That My Sideburns Were Of Substantially Higher Quality, However.

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

Whenever Vanity And Gaiety, A Love Of Pomp And Dress, Furniture, Equipage, Buildings, Great Company, Expensive Diversions, And Elegant Entertainments Get The Better Of The Principles And Judgments Of Men And Women, There Is No Knowing Where They Will Stop, Nor Into What Evils, Natural, Moral, Or Political, They Will Lead Us.

Slavery Is The Great And Foul Stain Upon The North American Union. A Dissolution, At Least Temporary, Of The Union, As Now Constituted, Would Now Be Certainly Necessary. The Union Might Then Be Reorganized On The Fundamental Principle Of Emancipation.

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.