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“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effectual as their strict construction.”
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- Speech
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- 2026-07-04
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- d3b18d06b724a78bef3a3cb9fbd51a90956218c6b0fd35ccae3c8bcd5e3ab736
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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