At what point shall we expect the approach of
danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic
military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of
Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth . . . could not by
force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a
thousand years . . . If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and
finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln, 1838
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