Submission is wholly a vassalage term, repugnant to the dignity of freedom, and an echo of the language used at the Conquest. (Thomas Paine)

Submission is wholly a vassalage term, repugnant to the dignity of freedom, and an echo of the language used at the Conquest.

Thomas Paine

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