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The Light That Has Guided Us Is Still Unquenched, And The Causes That Have Carried Us So Far In The Van Of Free Nations Have Not Spent Their Power; Because The Story Of The Future Is Written In The Past, And That Which Hath Been Is The Same Thing That Shall Be.

Liberty, Next To Religion Has Been The Motive Of Good Deeds And The Common Pretext Of Crime, From The Sowing Of The Seed At Athens, 2,460 Years Ago, Until The Ripened Harvest Was Gathered By Men Of Our Race. It Is The Delicate Fruit Of A Mature Civilization; And Scarcely A Century Has Passed Since Nations, That Knew The Meaning Of The Term, Resolved To Be Free. In Every Age Its Progress Has Been Beset By Its Natural Enemies, By Ignorance And Superstition, By Lust Of Conquest And By Love Of Ease, By The Strong Man's Craving For Power, And The Poor Man's Craving For Food.

Property Is Not The Sacred Right. When A Rich Man Becomes Poor It Is A Misfortune, It Is Not A Moral Evil. When A Poor Man Becomes Destitute, It Is A Moral Evil, Teeming With Consequences And Injurious To Society And Morality.

History Is The Arbiter Of Controversy, The Monarch Of All She Surveys.

There Is Not A More Perilous Or Immoral Habit Of Mind Than The Sanctifying Of Success.