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A torchlight procession marching down your throat.

— John L. O'Sullivan

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Understood as a central consolidated power, managing and directing the various general interests of the society, all government is evil, and the parent of evil... The best government is that which governs least.

The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1837)

A spirit of hostile interference against us... checking the fulfilment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

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