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Our Country Is Not The Only Thing To Which We Owe Our Allegiance. It Is Also Owed To Justice And To Humanity.

There Is In The American Government...a Want Of Unity.... The Sailors, The Helmsman, The Engineer, Do Not Seem To Have One Purpose Or Obey One Will So That Instead Of Making Steady Way The Vessel May Pursue A Devious Or Zigzag Course, And Sometimes Merely Turn Round And Round In The Water.

Patriotism Consists Not In Waving The Flag, But In Striving That Our Country Shall Be Righteous As Well As Strong.

Of All The Differences Between The Old World And The New, This Is Perhaps The Most Salient. Half The Wars Of Europe, Half The Internal Troubles That Have Vexed European States... Have Arisen From Theological Differences Or From The Rival Claims Of Church And State. This Whole Vast Chapter Of Debate And Strife Has Remained Virtually Unopened In The United States. There Is No Established Church. All Religious Bodies Are Equal Before The Law, And Unrecognized By The Law, Except As Voluntary Associations Of Private Citizens.

An Eminent American Is Reported To Have Said To Friends Who Wished To Put Him Forward, 'gentlemen, Let There Be No Mistake. I Should Make A Good President, But A Very Bad Candidate.