"I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament."

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Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.

— Friedrich Engels