I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be …

Charles Dickens
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I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth. ✨ Charles Dickens (1974). The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 3. 1842-1843, OUP Oxford
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