Peter W. Schramm on United States

“The United States started out in 1776 throwing off the accident and force that ruled by hereditary right in the old world, inviting mankind to respect the equal rights of human nature and the revolutionary choice of government by consent.”

“[I]n America human beings could prove to the world that they have the capacity to govern themselves... [T]he United States of America, is not only the most powerful and the most prosperous country on earth, but the most free and the most just.”