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“We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.”
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Caleb Cushing

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“Cruel war—war at home, and in the perspective distance a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Cæsar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.”

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