The Civil War Which Has So Long

There Is A Price Tag On Human Liberty. That Price Is The Willingness To Assume The Responsibilities Of Being Free Men. Payment Of This Price Is A Personal Matter With Each Of Us.

Republics Demanded Virtue. Monarchies Could Rely On Coercion And "dazzling Splendor" To Suppress Self-interest Or Factions; Republics Relied On The Goodness Of The People To Put Aside Private Interest For Public Good. The Imperatives Of Virtue Attached All Sorts Of Desiderata To The Republican Citizen: Simplicity, Frugality, Sobriety, Simple Manners, Christian Benevolence, Duty To The Polity. Republics Called On Other Virtues--spiritedness, Courage--to Protect The Polity From External Threats. Tyrants Kept Standing Armies; Republics Relied On Free Yeomen, Defending Their Own Land.

I Regret That I Should Leave This World Without Again Beholding Him.

National Honor Is National Property Of The Highest Value.

There Is Every Reason To Believe That Our System Will Soon Attain The Highest Degree Of Perfection Of Which Human Institutions Are Capable.