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QUOTATION:Boys forget what their country means by just reading “the land of the free” in history books. Then they get to be men, they forget even more. Liberty’s too precious a thing to be buried in books.
ATTRIBUTION:Sidney Buchman (1902–1975), U.S. screenwriter. Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939).
 
 
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