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It is bad policy to fear the resentment of an enemy.

— Ethan Allen

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Response, refusing instructions by a timid Continental Congress to move war matériel captured from the British to a place of safe keeping until it could be returned; as quoted in "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" - American Heritage magazine Vol. 14, Issue 6 (October 1963)

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Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty.

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