What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.
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Christopher Gadsden Quote
“It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.”
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