“But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.” MenStillsDiesHeavenChristTeachLessonsHarderPity Book:The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus Source: The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus
“We have had so many years of prosperity, we have passed through so many difficulties and dangers without the loss of liberty - that we begin to think that we hold it by divine right from heaven itself ... It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.” ThinkingYearsHeavenLossLibertyDangerDivineDifficultyHarderProsperityPreservesDivine Right Author:John C. Calhoun