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“It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitu…” — Marquis de Lafayette
It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.
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