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A government which cannot protect its humblest citizens from outrage and injury is unworthy of the name and ought not to command the support of a free people.

— Charles E. Nash Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (1876)

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America will not die. As the time demands them, great men will appear, and by their combined efforts render liberty and happiness more secure. The people will be ready and answer in every emergency that may arise.

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