All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans (ed. Penguin, 2011) - ISBN: 9781101552148