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    “The whole history of civilisation is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.”
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    “The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.”
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    “In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
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    “Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)