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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The love of liberty is deeply ingrained into the very life of the Irishman.
Not to speak of that eye which pierces through all disguises and beholds everything as in the splendor of noon, such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection even by men.
Not inaptly has hell been described as "disqualification in the face of opportunity.
We are here to erect this statue to his memory because of the unnumbered blessings to America and to the people of every race and clime which have followed his discovery.