"We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has grown.
But we have forgotton God. we have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us. We vainly imagined in the deceitfullness 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. It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended power and to confess our national sins and pray for clemency and forgiveness."
ABRAHAM LINCOLN second inagural address
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