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"I shudder when I think of the calamities which slavery is likely to produce in this country. You would think me mad if I were to describe my anticipations." – John Adams (1820)
"A powerful class by terror, rhetoric, and organised sentimentality, may drive their people to war but the day draws near when they cannot keep them there. " – William Butler Yeats
"Alone of all flags, it expresses the sovereignty of the people which endures when all else passes away. Speaking with their voice, it has the sanctity of revelations. He who lives under it and disloyal to it is a traitor to the human race everywhere. What could be saved if the flag of the American nation were to perish?" – Calvin Coolidge
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