![]() I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst, and to provide for it. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth - and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. ![]() PRESIDENT: It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. John’s Church, his resolution to organize the milita of Virginia and to put the colony of Virginia on a war footing was unanimously adopted in that colony. After Patrick Henry made this famous speech before the Virginia House of Burgesses at St. ![]()
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