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“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
“The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind.”66
“Gentlemen, you must pardon me,” he said. “I have grown gray in your service and now find myself growing blind.”
The Americans are a curious, original people. They know how to govern themselves, but nobody else can govern them.”