“A perpetual jealousy respecting liberty is absolutely requisite in all free states." John Dickinson. "Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism.” Thomas Jefferson. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” (Attributed to) Patrick Henry. "A man's country is not a certain area of land, but it is a principle, and patriotism is loyalty to that principle." George William Curtis. "Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.” Wendell Phillips. "M. Guizot: How long, Mr. Lowell, will your republic last? “Mr. Lowell: It will last, Sir, as long as the ideas of the men who founded it.” "It is not thus [by arms that the liberty of this country is to be destroyed. It is to be subverted only by a pretense of adhering to all the forms of law and yet by breaking down all the substance of our liberties." Alexander Hamilton. "The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.” Abraham Lincoln. AMERICAN TRADITION AN ANTHOLOGY OF STRIKING AND SIGNIFICANT AND LEADERS FROM 1619 TO 1924 Compiled and with an Introduction by JESSE LEE BENNETT "How is the spirit of a free EDWARD EVERETT CDH ) YORK |