This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

Shall we stop this bleeding?

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.