Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.