Trust, love, sentiment, bonds, attachments.
This is what we're talking about.
If you were going to establish an enduring social order
that would last forever to the thousandth and thousandth generation.
What would be the foundational material?
How would you build that great structure to last forever?
You would do it on the basis of what nature tells us.
Of course, our Republican governments,
our Democratic governments are based on natural law.
But what does nature teach us?
Nature teaches us that we should build on family relations.
And it teaches us indeed that society, which is natural,
according to people like Jefferson and Thomas Paine, society is natural.
It's government, and by this he means the government of old regime monarchies,
which is artificial and unnatural.
Society will stay together because,
after all, each one of you is endowed with a moral sense.