The Civil Service Can Never Be Placed

The Return To Solid Values Is Always Hard... Distress, Panic, And Hard Times Have Marked Our Pathway In Returning To Solid Values.

The Prosperity Which Now Prevails Is Without Parallel In Our History. Fruitful Seasons Have Done Much To Secure It, But They Have Not Done All. The Preservation Of The Public Credit And The Resumption Of Specie Payments, So Successfully Attained By The Administration Of My Predecessors, Have Enabled Our People To Secure The Blessings Which The Seasons Brought.

[science] Is The Literature Of God Written On The Stars-the Trees-the Rocks-and More Important Because [of] Its Marked Utilitarian Character.

A Noble Life Crowned With Heroic Death, Rises Above And Outlives The Pride And Pomp And Glory Of The Mightiest Empire Of The Earth.

The Best System Of Education Is That Which Draws Its Chief Support From The Voluntary Effort Of The Community, From The Individual Efforts Of Citizens, And From Those Burdens Of Taxation Which They Voluntarily Impose Upon Themselves.