Here are none to check or chide us, None to caution or divide; Love alone to guard and guide us, Drifting with the tide. Drifting, drifting-whither drifting, GARNET WALCH. THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. “I from FEEL it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived my intimate opportunities of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively and individually, that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives or more anxiously devoted to the object committed to them, than were the members of the Federal Convention of 1787 to the object of devising and proposing a constitutional system which should. best supply the defects of that it was to re I PRECEPTS. FIND, by repeated experiment and observation in my school, that human nature is more easily wrought upon and governed by promises and encouragement and praise than by punishment and threatening and blame. He is not a wise man, and is unfit to fill any important station in society, that has left one passion in his soul unsubdued. A head full of schemes and a heart full of anxiety are incompatible with any degree of happiness. Oh, the misery, the misfortune, the ruin of being an only son! I thank my God that I was not, and I devoutly pray that none of mine may ever be! I should prefer the delights of a garden to the dominion of a world. Tell not of your prosperity, because it will make two men mad to one glad; nor of your adversity, for it will make two men glad to one sad. JOHN ADAMS, Second President of the United States. PROCLAIM LIBERTY. FROM THE HEBREW OF MOSES, LEVITICUS XXv. 10. place, and best secure the permanent liberty PRO and happiness of their country." JAMES MADISON, Fourth President of the United States. ROCLAIM liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof.* The motto on the bell at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, whose chimes proclaimed the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, 1776. |