The materials by which any nation is rendered flourishing and prosperous are its industry, its knowledge or skill, its morals, its execution of justice, its courage, and the national union in directing these powers to one point, and making them all centre in the public benefit.
Edmund Burke.
It is to self-government, the great principle of popular representation and administration—the system that lets in all to participate in the counsel that are to assign the good or evil to all—that we may owe what we are and what we hope to be.—Daniel Webster.
Perpetual Peace and Happiness to the United States of America!—General Washington’s Toast, Newburgh, New York, April 19, 1783.
The American Commonwealth
Seeming parted, but yet a union in partition.
Shakespeare, “Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
That is the very best government which desires to make the people happy.—Macaulay, “Essays.”
The President of the United States
Yea, the elect of the land.