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  • I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

    Douglas MacArthur's farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress, www.americanrhetoric.com. April 19, 1951.
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