“Ef you take a sword an’ dror it,
An’ go stick a feller thru,
Guv’mint ain’t to answer for it,
God’ll send the bill to you.”

—  James Russell Lowell

No. 1, st. 3
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

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