These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have l.
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own, intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
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