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“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
-- Thomas Paine
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“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot; it will succeed where diplomatic management would fail; it is neither the Rhine, the Channel, nor the Ocean, that can arrest its progress: it will march on the horizon of the world, and it will conquer.”
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