"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in."
— Defense of freedom

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Paine, "The Crisis," no. 4, September 11, 1777, final paragraph. Moncure D. Conway, ed., The Writings of Thomas Paine (1902, reprinted 1969), vol. 1, p. 229, vol. 1, p. 232.