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"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."

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America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

— Max Lerner

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A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

— Thomas Jefferson

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