The Monitor's View: Quote

Liberty is no dream; it is our Canaan, a true land of promise. But, like the Jews, we shall see it afar off. To enter it, we must become God's own people. Liberty is as real as heaven. It is a heaven on earth - the country of the elect; but it must be earned, and conquered, not by oppression, but by self-devotion; not by pillage, but by generosity; not by taking life, but by bestowing it, in the moral as well as the material sense. Morally, above all; for once that is well understood and ascertained, the material side of the question will take care of itself.