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Aboriginal Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that…” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.”

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