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“Besides trying to influence opinion in Maine, Webster sent agents to disrupt the activities of the “Patriot Hunters,” a radical American group hoping to oust the British from Canada, and the scheme seems to have been the first time that Americans were targets of their own government.”
― Gary May, John Tyler: The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845

“I do not believe,” said Wilson, “that any man can lead who does not act … under the impulse of a profound sympathy with those whom he leads—a sympathy which is insight—an insight which is of the heart rather than of the intellect.”
― Gary May, John Tyler: The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845

“Texas “the ark of safety to swindlers, gamblers, robbers and rogues”
― Gary May, John Tyler: The American Presidents Series: The 10th President, 1841-1845