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"What right has any citizen of a free country, whatever his foresight and shrewdness, to seize on sources of life for his own behoof that are the common heritage of all; what right has legislature or court to help in the seizure; and striking still more deeply, what right has any generation to wholly consume, much less to waste, those sources of life without which the children or the children's children must starve or freeze?"

-William John McGee

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