Bonus Quotation of the Day…

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… is from the Declaration of Independence, the author of which was born on this date – April 13th – in 1743 in Shadwell, Virginia:

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world…. [His offenses include] cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world.