How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.
I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities.
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