As in the early morning and in the noon of the nineteenth century, America gave to the world its best lessons in liberty and in law, so in its closing hours, it has given to all the nations a never-to-be-forgotten lesson in the dread art of war.
He reflects on America's historical lessons in liberty and law, even in times of war.
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Great evils often result from hasty legislation, rarely from the delay which follows full discussion and deliberation.
Irishmen, in common with liberty-loving men everywhere, looked with abhorrence upon the attempt of a great European power to establish monarchy upon the ruins of republics.
Politics, the prime cause of fortune's favors to them in the beginning, proved their undoing in the end.
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