I have nothing but my heart and I have given it long ago to my country

I have not assumed to myself that I had a mission.

It is true, gentlemen, I believed for years I had a mission, and when I speak of a mission you will understand me not as trying to play the role of insane before the grand jury so as to have a verdict of acquittal upon that ground. I …

Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time.

In a little while it will be all over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die. A day of reckoning will come to our enemies and of jubilee to my people. The hated yoke of English domination and arrogance will be …

We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.

I say that, I have been blessed by God and I hope that you will not take that as a presumptuous assertion.