All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks… strike, strike through the mask!

Herman Melville · Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 36, Ahab

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.… We are not a nation, so much as a world.

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