With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The United States of America has been great because it has been free.
We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.
America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.
The armed citizen made America free, and the armed citizen will keep America free!
We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
The Civil War has a tremendous moral and emotional force.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.
Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.
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