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“Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, Jan. 29, 1828.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8a50d3102400ca6b69dba75fef24e3b2575bcfc695cb885b7f896ca859b141e5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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