If the reputation of our arms has been thrown under clouds on the other, presaging flashes of heroic enterprise assure us that nothing is wanting to correspondent triumphs there also but the discipline and habits which are in daily progress.
James Madison: “If the reputation of our arms has been thrown under clouds on the other, presaging flashes of heroic enterprise assure…”
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