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James Monroe: “When we view the great blessings with which our country has been favored, those which we now enjoy, and the means which…”

On the recordNovember 15, 1818
When we view the great blessings with which our country has been favored, those which we now enjoy, and the means which we possess of handing them down unimpaired to our latest posterity, our attention is irresistibly drawn to the source from whence they flow.
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James Monroe
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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Second Annual Message

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