"You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world."

Politics, Nation, World, Responsibility, Unity

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"You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world."

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