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They thought if they could but wring the neck of the crowing cock it would never be day.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Hoar uses a metaphor to illustrate the futility of trying to suppress reform by silencing its advocates.
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This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
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