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The Fire Bell in the Night and Our Real Terror

New York, May Day: Thomas Jefferson used a phrase in a letter that is still ringing all these years later. Here's his thought, a candidate for "THE WORD," segment on the Colbert Report;

"I had for a long time ceased to read the newspapers or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant, but this momentous question like A FIRE BELL IN THE NIGHT (caps mine), awakened and filled me with terror."