"We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened."

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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson