FOUNDATION OF HOPE
But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man’s wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation’s humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and his overruling providence. From Franklin Pierce’s inaugural address on March 4 of 1853
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