Had I Been Chosen President

A Native Of America Who Cannot Read Or Write Is . . . As Rare As A Comet Or An Earthquake.

What Havoc, Said I To Myself, Would These Manners Make In America! Our Governors, Our Judges, Our Senators Or Representatives, And Even Our Ministers, Would Be Appointed By Harlots, For Money; And Their Judgments, Decrees, And Decisions, Be Sold To Repay Themselves, Or, Perhaps, To Procure The Smiles Of Profligate Females.

I Must Study Politics And War That My Sons May Have Liberty To Study Mathematics And Philosophy.

Elections To Office, Which Are The Great Objects Of Ambition, I Look At With Terror!

A Taste For Literature And A Turn For Business, United In The Same Person, Never Fails To Make A Great Man.