“Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it.”
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“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
-- Thomas Paine
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“Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it.”