As Americans we've been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven.
We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers,
wealth, and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we've forgotten our God. We have
forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied, and enriched, and
strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all
these blessings were produced through our own superior wisdom and virtue. Intoxicated with
unbroken success we have now become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming
and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Abraham Lincoln
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