“Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.”
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We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.