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"Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness!
Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system,
superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence,
and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world! "Alexander Hamilton