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John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it! 
Our Union: It must be preserved. 
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Let who will make the laws of a nation so long as I am permitted to make her songs. 
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe. 
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If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. 