It … reminded him that the true foundation of duty is not hope, because it is human to hope for the wrong thing. Duty is based on something more profound than hope, on faith that what is too wrong to endure will be made right, rectified by a system of justice that underlies all of nature, far beneath the subatomic level, a system that may right a wrong in a day or through the passage of time or outside of time. The schedule isn’t ours to protest or endorse. His duty is to act with the skill and wisdom he possesses, not with hope but with conviction.
— Dean Koontz
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In 1524, Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer in the service of France, reached New York harbor.
In 1861, the State of Virginia’s secession convention voted to leave the United States.
In 1905, the Supreme Court of the United States held, in Lochner v. New York, that the “right to free contract” is implicit in the due process clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
In 1941, Yugoslavia signed an armistice with Germany and Italy.
In 1946, the last French troops withdrew from Syria.
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