David Crockett – ThisIsCommonSense.org

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Statesmen are gamesters, and the people are the cards they play with.
David Crockett, first sentence of The Life of Martin Van Buren, Heir-apparent to the “Government” and the Appointed Successor to General Andrew Jackson (Tenth edition, 1836).

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