The virtue to be free

“The time is not at hand when we shall see whether America has virtue enough to be free or not.’’

— Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795), fourth governor of New Hampshire as well as , among other things, a physician. He was delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire.

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A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but your feet are always in the water.’’

— Fisher Ames (1758-1808), Massachusetts congressman (1789-1797) and a Federalist leader