"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...It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."
Abraham Lincoln
to see an interesting post about Abraham go here:
http://jhistorian.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/abraham-lincoln/
to see an interesting post about Abraham go here:
http://jhistorian.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/abraham-lincoln/
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