A quote from James Madison

All Europe must by degrees be aroused to the recollection and assertion of the rights of human nature. Your good will to Mankind will be gratified with this prospect, and your pleasure as an American be enhanced by the reflection that the light which is chasing darkness and despotism from the old world, is but an emanation from that which has procured and succeeded the establishment of liberty in the New.

— Federalist Papers [1787]