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Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

James F. Cooper

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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
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Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
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In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.
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