"Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen."

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Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.

— Robert Emmet