Of coming ages, year on year,
We mark the great Republic’s proud career,
Like Philip’s phalanx, manifold,
With bucklers linked, one front against aggression,
Till Freedom’s perfect vision is unrolled,
And man, with eye unsealed, its glories shall behold.
LIBERTY
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Burke—Speech at a County Meeting at Bucks, 1784.