The Four Most Miserable Years

The Political System Of The United States Is Essentially Extra-european. To Stand In Firm And Cautious Independence Of All Entanglement In The European System Has Been A Cardinal Point Of Their Policy Under Every Administration Of Their Government From The Peace Of 1783 To This Day...every Year's Experience Rivets It More Deeply In The Principles And Opinions Of The Nation.

In What Light Soever We Regard The Bible, Whether With Reference To Revelation, To History, Or To Morality, It Is An Invaluable And Inexhaustible Mine Of Knowledge And Virtue.

All The Public Business In Congress Now Connects Itself With Intrigues, And There Is Great Danger That The Whole Government Will Degenerate Into A Struggle Of Cabals.

So Great Is My Veneration For The Bible That The Earlier My Children Begin To Read It The More Confident Will Be My Hope That They Will Prove Useful Citizens Of Their Country And Respectable Members Of Society. I Have For Many Years Made It A Practice To Read Through The Bible Once Every Year.

It Is So Obvious To Every Reasonable Being That He Did Not Make Himself, And The World In Which He Inhabits Could As Little Make Itself, That The Moment We Begin To Exercise The Power Of Reflection, It Seems Impossible To Escape The Conviction That There Is A Creator.