Liberty, Next To Religion Has

A Government Does Not Desire Its Powers To Be Strictly Defined, But The Subjects Require The Line To Be Drawn With Increasing Precision.

The Science Of Politics Is The One Science That Is Deposited By The Streams Of History, Like The Grains Of Gold In The Sand Of A River; And The Knowledge Of The Past, The Record Of Truths Revealed By Experience, Is Eminently Practical, As An Instrument Of Action And A Power That Goes To Making The Future.

The True Guide Of Our Conduct Is No Outward Authority, But The Voice Of God, Who Comes Down To Dwell In Our Souls, Who Knows All Our Thoughts, To Whom Are Owing All The Truth We Know, And All The Good We Do; For Vice Is Voluntary, And Virtue Comes From The Grace Of The Heavenly Spirit Within.

A History That Should Pursue All The Subtle Threads From End To End Might Be Eminently Valuable, But Not As A Tribute To Peace And Conciliation.

I Have Reached The End Of My Time, And Have Hardly Come To The Beginning Of My Task.