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A single breath blew all his mock-judicial array into air and smoke.
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Quincy illustrates the power of a single moment to dismantle pretenses, highlighting the fragility of authority.
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The power of the present Congress to enact laws essential to the welfare of the people has been struck with apoplexy by the executive hand.
No man can be surprised that such a cause was swept away by a moral and political whirlwind; that it carried with it all the institutions of civil society, so that its march was a wild desolation.
The seeds of this complicated machine were all sown in the Declaration of Independence; and their fruits can never be eradicated but by the dissolution of the Union.
He dismissed from office, without trial, without charge, and without fault, faithful and able men.
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