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it's been a little bit obvious for quite some time, that we're the playthings of "business" who've been repeatedly plissed on....acting like we receive an unfortunate splash here and there is just willful ignorance, and a large piece of our predicament.

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I say...upon this point, what JUDGE BLACKSTONE says; and that is, that the right to resist oppression always exists, but that those who compose the nation at any given time must be left to judge for themselves when oppression has arrived at a pitch to justify the exercise of such right.

William Cobbett - Political Register (29 November 1817)