I Cannot Ask Of Heaven Success, Even

We Have No Government Armed With Power Capable Of Contending With Human Passions Unbridled By Morality And Religion. Our Constitution Was Made For A Moral And Religious People... It Is Wholly Inadequate To The Government Of Any Other.

This Mode Of Electioneering Suited Neither My Taste Nor My Principles. I Thought It Equally Unsuitable To My Personal Character And To The Station In Which I Am Placed.

America, With The Same Voice Which Spoke Herself Into Existence As A Nation, Proclaimed To Mankind The Inextinguishable Rights Of Human Nature, And The Only Lawful Foundations Of Government.

This Is The Last Of Earth! I Am Content.

The Influence Of Each Human Being On Others In This Life Is A Kind Of Immortality.