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"Let us exercise our responsibilities as free people. But let us remember, we are not enemies. We are compatriots defending ourselves from a real enemy. We have nothing to fear from each other. We are arguing over the means to better secure our freedom, promote the general welfare and defend our ideals. It should remain an argument among friends; each of us struggling to hear our conscience, and heed its demands; each of us, despite our differences, united in our great cause, and respectful of the goodness in each other. I have not always heeded this injunction myself, and I regret it very much."
IMO, the real enemy is the conglomeration of the media, the "owning" of politicians by large corporations and lobbyists and the dividers on both sides of the aisle that would rather see a homogeneous USA where only their people lived.
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