You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
That is what made America great: that everyone had the opportunity to be a winner. And I think it's still there. I'm certainly a beneficiary of it.
I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.
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