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Why Is It That, Next To The Birthday Of The Savior Of The World, Your Most Joyous And Most Venerated Festival Returns On This Day (the 4th Of July)? Is It Not That, In The Chain Of Human Events, The Birthday Of The Nation Is Indissolubly Linked With The Birthday Of The Savior?.

And May That Being Who Is Supreme Over All, The Patron Of Order, The Fountain Of Justice, And The Protector, In All Ages Of The World, Of Virtuous Liberty, Continue His Blessing Upon This Nation And Its Government, And Give It All Possible Success And Duration, Consistent With The Ends Of His Providence.

Those Who Take Oaths To Politically Powerful Secret Societies Cannot Be Depended On For Loyalty To A Democratic Republic.

It Is By A Thorough Knowledge Of The Whole Subject That [people] Are Enabled To Judge Correctly Of The Past And To Give A Proper Direction To The Future.

Every Temptation Is An Opportunity Of Our Getting Nearer To God.