The Ultimate Justice of the People
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?
It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoast, our army and our navy.
Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us.
Our defence is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere.
Destroy this spirit, and we have planted the seeds of despotism at our own doors.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?
Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoast, our army and our navy.
Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us.
Our defence is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere.
Destroy this spirit, and we have planted the seeds of despotism at our own doors.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
. . . . .
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?
Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
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