America Does Not Go Abroad

There Is Such Seduction In A Library Of Good Books That I Cannot Resist The Temptation To Luxuriate In Reading.

The Constitution Had Provided That All The Public Functionaries Of The Union...should Be Under Oath Or Affirmation For Its Support. The Homage Of Religious Faith Was Thus Superadded To All The Obligations Of Temporal Law To Give It Strength.

Find A Mission That You Can Give Yourself Over To And Then Spend Your Days Moving That Mission Forward. Man Is Made So That When Anything Fires His Soul The Impossibilities Vanish. The Influence Of Each Human Being On Others In This Life Is A Kind Of Immortality.

But America Is A Great, Unwieldy Body. Its Progress Must Be Slow... Like A Coach And Six - The Swiftest Horses Must Be Slackened And The Slowest Quickened, That All May Keep An Even Pace.

Whether To The Nation Or To The State, No Service Can Be Or Ever Will Be Rendered By A More Able Or A More Faithful Public Servant.