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Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

— William Lisle Bowles

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The cause of freedom is the cause of God!

The Right Honourable Edmund Burke (1791)

O harmony! thou tenderest nurse of pain,
If that thy note's sweet magic e'er can heal
Griefs which the patient spirit oft may feel,
Oh! let me listen to thy songs again;
Till memory her fairest tints shall bring;
Hope wake with brighter eye, and listening seem
With smiles to think on some delightful dream.

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