Lincoln stated "Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."
Nationalism is the opposite of globalism; nationalism depends on the nation; and “Christian nationalism” used to be called “Christian patriotism,” and past Presidents, Democrat and Republican, encouraged it.
Joel Barlow, U.S. Consul to Algiers and France, wrote in Advice to the Privileged Orders in the Several States of Europe, Resulting from the Necessity and Propriety of a General Revolution in the Principle of Government (1792, 1956, p. 46): "The foundation of everything is ... that the people will form an equal representative government ... that the people will be universally armed ... A people that legislate for themselves ought to be in the habit of protecting themselves."
Kennedy stated January 17, 1963:"Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government."
In this era, the wealthy had doctors visit them at their homes, but the poor were primarily cared for at Catholichospitals. By 1789, there were 6,000 Sisters of Charity running 426 hospitals in France. They also ran hospitals in countries across Europe, such as Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Silesia.
