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on 6/5/1778
"O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?"
on 6/5/1778
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
on 6/5/1788
"Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earlthy blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel."
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on 6/5/1850
in West Africa
born in was captured and became a slave of at 5 years old In June Commodore Forbes of HMS Bonetta arrived in Dahomey and King presented him with girl as a prese More pictures: tco 9FKKf46oq5 tco Z5aqjQptsH
on 6/5/1967
also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War