The Experience Of All Former Ages Had

I Have To Study Politics And War So That My Sons Can Study Mathematics, Commerce And Agriculture, So Their Sons Can Study Poetry, Painting And Music.

Roll, Years Of Promise, Rapidly Roll Round, Till Not A Slave Shall On This Earth Be Found.

My Stern Chase After Time Is, To Borrow A Simile From Tom Paine, Like The Race Of A Man With A Wooden Leg After A Horse.

America, With The Same Voice Which Spoke Herself Into Existence As A Nation, Proclaimed To Mankind The Inextinguishable Rights Of Human Nature, And The Only Lawful Foundations Of Government.

The Natural State Of Mankind ... And I Know That This Is A Controversial Idea... Is Freedom... And The Proof Is The Lengths To Which A Man, Woman, Or Child Will Go To Regain It Once Lost. He Will Break Loose His Chains. He Will Decimate His Enemies. He Will Try And Try And Try Again, Against All Odds, Against All Prejudices.