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Quotation from First Inaugural Address by James Madison
“free and virtuous nation, would under any circumstances have commanded my gratitude and devotion, as well as filled me with an awful sense of the trust to be assumed”
First Inaugural Address, First paragraph (Project Gutenberg #4938)
Madison describes his election as the "tranquil suffrage" of the nation and the trust of office as awful in the older sense of awe-inspiring.
Citation: "free and virtuous nation, would under any circumstances have commanded my gratitude and devotion, as well as filled me with an awful sense of the trust to be assumed" — James Madison, First Inaugural Address, First paragraph (Project Gutenberg #4938). (id madison-first-inaugural-address-q4)
