We may be sure
that they will never have such another commonwealth, or any
resembling ours, which can no longer offer itself as an eminent
example.
The sort of Englishmen, of whose respect Americans can make
surest are those English thick-and-thin patriots who admire force
and strength, and believe that it is the Anglo-Saxon mission to
possess the earth, and to profit by its weaker peoples, not
cruelly, not unkindly, yet unquestionably. The Englishmen of
whose disrespect we can make surest are those who expect to
achieve liberty, equality, and fraternity in the economic way,
the political way having failed; who do not care whether the head
of the state is born or elected, is called "King" or called
"President," since he will presently not be at all; who abhor
war, and believe that the meek shall inherit the earth, and these
only if they work for a living. They have already had their will
with the existing English state, until now that state is far more
the servant of the people in fetching and carrying, in guarding
them from hard masters and succoring them in their need, than the
republic which professes to derive its just powers from the
consent of the governed.
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