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“As an inhabitant of a Mississippi River town happily shouts out in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, “You pays your money and you makes your choice!” That may be the most American sentence ever written.”

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Book:First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

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“More than anything else, I have learned in researching this book that America is a moving target, a goal that must always be pursued but never quite reached.”

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