"Libertas et natale solum: Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em."
— Jonathan Swift

January 1, 1970

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Verses Occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach (1724); the Latin indicates "liberty and my native land", and Whitshed was a chief justice enraged by The Drapier's Letters