The Law Is An Artificial

Whenever Vanity And Gaiety, A Love Of Pomp And Dress, Furniture, Equipage, Buildings, Great Company, Expensive Diversions, And Elegant Entertainments Get The Better Of The Principles And Judgments Of Men And Women, There Is No Knowing Where They Will Stop, Nor Into What Evils, Natural, Moral, Or Political, They Will Lead Us.

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.

Let Us Not Be Unmindful That Liberty Is Power, That The Nation Blessed With The Largest Portion Of Liberty Must In Proportion To Its Numbers Be The Most Powerful Nation Upon Earth.

The Barbarian Chieftain, Who Defended His Country Against The Roman Invasion, Driven To The Remotest Extremity Of Britain, And Stimulating His Followers To Battle, By All That Has Power Of Persuasion Upon The Human Heart, Concludes His Exhortation By An Appeal To These Irresistible Feelings - "think Of Your Forefathers And Of Your Posterity."

The Four Most Miserable Years Of My Life Were My Four Years In The Presidency.