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"I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe . . .
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter.
From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.
I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing.
Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy."
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