You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
Andrew Jackson
Carolinian
Source
Farewell Address, Washington, 4 March 1837; Miller Center, University of Virginia
- form
- speech
- work
- Farewell Address
- year
- 1837
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“You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care.…” Andrew Jackson. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-FCF26FC111. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/fcf26fc111