I Do Not Know Whether You Are

Gaming Corrupts Our Disposition And Teaches Us A Habit Of Hostility Against All Mankind.

In Short I Must Confide In You To Take Such Care Of The Men Under You As An Economical Householder Would Of His Own Family, Doingevery Thing Within Himself As Far As He Can, And Calling For As Few Supplies As Possible. The Less You Depend For Supplies From This Quarter, The Less You Will Be Disappointed.

Ignorance And Bigotry, Like Other Insanities, Are Incapable Of Self-government.

Lethargy Is The Forerunner Of Death To The Public Liberty.

I Have Been Happy . . . In Believing That . . . Whatever Follies We May Be Led Into As To Foreign Nations, We Shall Never Give Up Our Union, The Last Anchor Of Our Hope, And That Alone Which Is To Prevent This Heavenly Country From Becoming An Arena Of Gladiators.