I believe that liberty, good government, free institutions, cannot be given by any one people to any other, but must be wrought out for each by itself, slowly, painfully, in the process of years or centuries, as the oak adds ring to ring.
Hoar argues that liberty and good governance must be achieved by each nation through its own efforts over time.
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