Saturday, July 07, 2007
RANDOM ORATIONS POST-Salisbury
same speech, just haven't been reading it.
---And we are not so strong as we were. At first all nations sympathized with us, but now they look on us coldly and even with hostility. Those who were our friends have become indifferent, those who were indifferent have become our adversaries; and if our misfortunes and disasters go on much lomger we shall have europe saying that they can not trust us, that we are too weak, that our prestige is too low to justify us in undertaking this task.
amazing how history repeats so closely.
same speech, just haven't been reading it.
---And we are not so strong as we were. At first all nations sympathized with us, but now they look on us coldly and even with hostility. Those who were our friends have become indifferent, those who were indifferent have become our adversaries; and if our misfortunes and disasters go on much lomger we shall have europe saying that they can not trust us, that we are too weak, that our prestige is too low to justify us in undertaking this task.
amazing how history repeats so closely.
