I join in your prayers for the prosperity of my reign, the best security for which is to be found in reverence for our holy religion, and in the observance of its duties."-- VICTORIA, _to the Friends' Society_.
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_From President Adams's Eulogy on Lafayette .-- Written in 1834_.
"Pronounce him one of the first men of his age, and you have yet not done him justice.

Try him by that test to which he sought in vain to stimulate the vulgar and selfish spirit of Napoleon; class him among the men who, to compare and seat themselves, must take in the compass of all ages; turn back your eyes upon the records of time; summon from the creation of the world to this day the mighty dead of every age and every clime; and where, among the race of merely mortal men, shall one be found, who, as the benefactor of his kind, shall claim to take precedence of Lafayette ?"--JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
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_From President Jackson's Proclamation against Nullification .-- 1832_.
"No, we have not erred! The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defence in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace.

It shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity: and the sacrifices of local interest, of State prejudices, of personal animosities, that were made to bring it into existence, will again be patriotically offered for its support."-- ANDREW JACKSON.
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