Political Quotes

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Let us be grateful for these blessings to the beneficent Being who has conferred them, and who suffers us to indulge a reasonable hope of their continuance and extension, while we neglect not the means by which they may be preserved.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Jackson calls for gratitude towards a higher power for the blessings and prosperity enjoyed by the nation.

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