It is the duty of man to raise up man. One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve. Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country. Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.

It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty.

The virtuous who are prosperous must be exalted, and the virtuous who are not prosperous must be exalted too.