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2731. ERROR, Human Nature and.—[further continued].

I cannot have escaped
error. It is incident to our imperfect nature.
But I may say with truth, my errors have
been of the understanding, not of intention;
and that the advancement of [the people's] rights and interests has been the constant
motive of every measure.—
Eighth Annual Message. Washington ed. viii, 110. Ford ed., ix, 225.
(1808)