As dreadful as the Manichean god,
Adored through fear, strong only to destroy.
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Line 444.William Cowper
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You will understand that there is nothing dreadful in this except fear itself. (translator unknown).
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I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government can not be strong, that this Government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.
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