America... Goes Not Abroad, In

I Shall Look For Whatever Success May Attend My Public Service; And Knowing That "except The Lord Keep The City The Watchman Waketh But In Vain," With Fervent Supplications For His Favor, To His Overruling Providence I Commit With Humble But Fearless Confidence My Own Fate And The Future Destinies Of My Country.

Individual Liberty Is Individual Power, And As The Power Of A Community Is A Mass Compounded Of Individual Powers, The Nation Which Enjoys The Most Freedom Must Necessarily Be In Proportion To Its Numbers The Most Powerful Nation.

The Conflict Between The Principle Of Liberty And The Fact Of Slavery Is Coming Gradually To An Issue. Slavery Has Now The Power, And Falls Into Convulsions At The Approach Of Freedom.

I Inhabit A Weak, Frail, Decayed Tenement; Battered By The Winds And Broken In On By The Storms, And, From All I Can Learn, The Landlord Does Not Intend To Repair.

I Cannot Ask Of Heaven Success, Even For My Country, In A Cause Where She Should Be In The Wrong.