If You Wish To Avoid

The Measure Of The Wealth Of A Nation Is Indicated By The Measure Of Its Protection Of Its Industry; The Measure Of The Poverty Of A Nation Is Marked By The Degree In Which It Neglects And Abandons The Care Of Its Own Industry, Leaving It Exposed To The Action Of Foreign Powers.

Peaceably If We Can, Forcibly If We Must.

Whether We Assert Our Rights By Sea, Or Attempt Their Maintenance By Land Whithersoever We Turn Ourselves, This Phantom Incessantly Pursues Us. Already Has It Had Too Much Influence On The Councils Of The Nation.

Statistics Are No Substitute For Judgment.

I Always Have Had, And Always Shall Have, A Profound Regard For Christianity, The Religion Of My Fathers, And For Its Rights, Its Usages And Observances.