With gratitude and admiration for their lives, which brightened the paths and highways leading to the City upon a Hill, the author humbly dedicates this book to

Mr. Alex Saunders (1900–1984),
Mount Vernon, New York

Mr. Martin Adler (1922–2012),
Rumson, New Jersey

Dr. Harry Victor Jaffa (1918–2015),
Claremont, California

and to my grandmother, Mrs. Kathryn Tolbert Smith (1908–1982),
Fair Haven, New Jersey