For me the end of the year is always a time to reflect and recharge my energies.
I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.
Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found. . . all is confusion beyond it.