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It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

John Buchanan Robinson

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John Buchanan Robinson
Age: 86 †
Born: 1846
Born: May 23
Died: 1933
Died: January 28
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