From the beginning of our ...

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
 Charles Sumner

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Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.
 Charles Sumner