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“Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.”

― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
tags: american-exceptionalism, freedom, frontier, individualism, justice, liberalism, libertarianism, liberty, mercy, social-contract, solidarity, state-of-nature, the-west
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