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"In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority."
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"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."
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"We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent."
"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."
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