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It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination. - in a speech in Chicago about 1865 or 1866 when Johnson threatened to imitate Cromwell and with troops force Congress to adjourn, as reported in the Chicago Tribune [Ships : Tyranny] Love of country is one of the loftiest virtues which the Almighty has planted in the human heart, and so treason against it has been considered among the most damning sins. - [Treason] Patriotism knows neither latitude nor longitude. It is not climatic. - [Patriotism]
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