Better And Safer Is An Assured Peace

There Is An Old Saying Which, From Its Truth, Has Become Proverbial, That Friendships Should Be Immortal, Enmities Mortal.

Men's Minds Are Too Ready To Excuse Guilt In Themselves.

The Study Of History Is The Best Medicine For A Sick Mind; For In History You Have A Record Of The Infinite Variety Of Human Experience Plainly Set Out For All To See; And In That Record You Can Find Yourself And Your Country Both Examples And Warnings; Fine Things To Take As Models, Base Things Rotten Through And Through, To Avoid.

Those Ills Are Easiest To Bear With Which We Are Most Familiar.

This Above All Makes History Useful And Desirable; It Unfolds Before Our Eyes A Glorious Record Of Exemplary Actions.