Sir James

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“At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“Where liberty dwells there is my country.”
—Anonymous. Latin phrase.

Adopted as a motto by U.S. patriot and orator James Otis (1725-1783)