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John Ford viewed The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as a profound, somber meditation on the American myth, exploring the contrast between heroic legend and historical truth, famously captured in the line, "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend". He used the film, one of his last Westerns, to bid farewell to the fading era of the Old West, focusing on themes of myth-making, the rise of law over violence, and the melancholic passage of time, often expressed through the film's quiet, reflective tone and black-and-white cinematography. Ford also pushed his actors, including a reportedly difficult dynamic with John Wayne and bullying of Jimmy Stewart, reflecting his intense working style on this mature, complex Western.
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Wendell Berry
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There is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do what they forbid.
Alexander Hamilton
Federalist No. 78
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