It is the idea which combined our fathers on the heights of Bunker Hill,--which carried Washington through a seven years' war,--which inspired Lafayette,--which with coals of fire touched the lips of Adams, Otis, and Patrick Henry.
Sumner connects the idea of freedom to historical figures and events that shaped the nation.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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