I Think I Stand Where That Man

Whereas, The Senate Of The United States, Devoutly Recognizing The Supreme Authority And Just Government Of Almighty God, In All The Affairs Of Men And Of Nations, Has, By A Resolution, Requested The President To Designate And Set Apart A Day For National Prayer And Humiliation.

Have I Not Destroyed My Enemy When I Have Made Him Into My Friend?

I Find Quite As Much Material For A Lecture In Those Points Wherein I Have Failed, As In Those Wherein I Have Been Moderately Successful.

I Do The Very Best I Know How - The Very Best I Can; And I Mean To Keep On Doing So Until The End.

We Cannot Escape History.