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  • You are looking to the World like uncivilize aliens.

    Obama's political arm release new health care video 2009

  • We need to uncivilize ourselves and utilize the basic instinct of survival.

    Move Past the Deception 2008

  • You take up a system calculated to uncivilize the world—to destroy order—to trample on religion—to stifle in the heart, not merely the generosity of noble sentiment, but the affections of social nature; and in the prosecution of this system, you spread terror and devastation all around you.

    IV. On the Refusal to Negotiate with France 1906

  • You take up a system calculated to uncivilize the world -- to destroy order, -- to trample on religion, -- to stifle in the heart, not merely the generosity of a noble sentiment, but the affections of social nature; and in the prosecution of this systems you spread terror and devastation all around you.

    The American Union Speaker 1852

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