To Impose Taxes When The

I Have Great Satisfaction In Stating That Our Relations With France, Russia, And Other Powers Continue On The Most Friendly Basis.

I Regret That I Should Leave This World Without Again Beholding Him.

The Payments Which Have Been Made Into The Treasury Show The Very Productive State Of The Public Revenue.

How Prone All Human Institutions Have Been To Decay; How Subject The Best-formed And Most Wisely Organized Governments Have Been To Lose Their Check And Totally Dissolve; How Difficult It Has Been For Mankind, In All Ages And Countries, To Preserve Their Dearest Rights And Best Privileges, Impelled As It Were By An Irresistible Fate Of Despotism.

We Must Support Our Rights Or Lose Our Character, And With It, Perhaps, Our Liberties.