Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, April 03, 2009 1:20:32 AM
"The future of liberty depends upon each generation seeking to restore the pillars that support free, republican government. This, Lincoln argued, demanded that a "general intelligence" and "sound morality" be inculcated in the hearts and minds of the people as nothing less than a "reverence for the constitution and laws" of the country."
Abraham Lincoln
In Defense of the Permanent Things
By Gary L. McDowell
On August 25, 1829 Joseph Story, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, delivered his inaugural address as the Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University (a post he would hold concurrently with his seat on the highest court). Story took the opportunity in his lecture on "The Value and Importance of Legal Studies" to remind the great and the good there gathered in Cambridge of just how fragile were the foundations of republican governments.
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