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No President Who Performs His Duties Faithfully And Conscientiously Can Have Any Leisure. If He Entrusts The Details And Smaller Matters To Subordinates Constant Errors Will Occur. I Prefer To Supervise The Whole Operations Of The Government Myself Rather Than Entrust The Public Business To Subordinates, And This Makes My Duties Very Great.

Peace, Plenty, And Contentment Reign Throughout Our Borders, And Our Beloved Country Presents A Sublime Moral Spectacle To The World.

It Is Confidently Believed That Our System May Be Safely Extended To The Utmost Bounds Of Our Territorial Limits.

When I Observed A Strong Man Approaching I Generally Took Advantage Of Him By Being A Little Quicker Than He Was And Seizing Him By The Tip Of The Fingers, Giving Him A Hearty Shake, And Thus Preventing Him From Getting A Full Grip Upon Me.

General Taylor Is, I Have No Doubt, A Well-meaning Old Man. He Is, However, Uneducated, Exceedingly Ignorant Of Public Affairs, And I Should Judge, Of Very Ordinary Capacity.