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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Willingness
Secure
Enemy
Everybody
Alone
Hope
Cannot
Readiness
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