ABSTRACT
Take care, young men, take care that the triumph of the cause upon this virgin soil does not incite your hopes to go too far; after so many centuries of corruption, you will have to surmount untold difficulties; it has cost us much bloodshed to gain our liberty, but you will pour out torrents before you will establish it in your Old Europe.—Reverend Samuel Cooper, to the French soldiers in Boston in 1782.
