We Have No Government Armed With Power

To Live Without Having A Cicero And A Tacitus At Hand Seems To Me As If It Was Aprivation Of One Of My Limbs.

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.

The Constitution Had Provided That All The Public Functionaries Of The Union...should Be Under Oath Or Affirmation For Its Support. The Homage Of Religious Faith Was Thus Superadded To All The Obligations Of Temporal Law To Give It Strength.

To Believe That Everyone Is Honest Is Folly, But To Believe That No One Is Honest Is Worse.

Whoever Tells The Best Story Wins.