Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them.
"A Library of American Literature From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time". Book by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Volume 3, 'A Duty to Posterity' (pp. 177-178), 1892.
