The threats are still there.

It's obviously an issue that Americans care very much about.

We should not gamble with the progress that we've made.

The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.

Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.

No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.