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From Common Sense: Thomas Paine
"The sun never set on a cause of greater worth. 'Tis not the affair of a city, a county, a province, or a kingdom, but of a continent - of at least one eighth part of the habitable globe. 'Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected even to the end of time, by the proceedings now. Now is the seed-time of continental union, faith and honor. The least infraction now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound will enlarge with the tree and posterity read it in full grown characters...

O ye that love Mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! recieve the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind."
HE has it Right! These words Ring True TODAY, Just as they did over 200 years ago.
And I don't know who said it, but let Me say : Those that do not learn from History are Destined To Repeat it!
By The Way, there are MANY Benedict Arnolds in Congress, they need to have the same fate as the Original.