It can not be true.

It is not _you_ but _the thing you stand for_ that is important.
"_Fifth_--The good of all the people must be the thing you stand for--the United States of America.
"Now I wish you to observe how our great fellow townsman keeps his subject to the fore and himself in the background.
"It was in 1834 that he addressed the Senate regarding the deposits of public money.

He rose to voice the wishes of the people of this state.
If he had seemed to be expressing his own opinions he would have missed his great point.

Now mark how he cast himself aside when he began: "'I must not be understood as, for one moment, entertaining the vain impression that opinions and views pronounced by me, here or elsewhere, will acquire any importance because they are my opinions and views.

I know well, sir, that my name carries not with it authority anywhere, but I know, also, that so far as I may entertain and shall express opinions which are, or which shall be found, in accord with the enlightened public opinion of this country, so far they will be sustained and no further.' "Then by overwhelming proof he set forth the opinion of our people on the subject in hand.