Our ancestors, when but three millions in number, had the courage to declare their political independence of every other nation; shall we, their descendants, when we have grown to seventy millions, declare that we are less independent than our forefathers?
Stevenson draws a parallel between the courage of the American ancestors and the current generation's independence.
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