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I decided to start Robert Graves "Goodbye to All That" in honor of the start of war.
Graves was a poet, war hero, and anti-war protester (along with Siegfried Sassoon). He was a very angry man.

( Poetry )

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From Alter net:

But in the words of Benjamin Franklin, one of the few Founding Fathers who neither owned slaves nor condoned slavery, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Compare the The Alien and Sedition Acts to the Second Patriot Act