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Thank you for your brave work on this issue, you are a true patriot. "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to

by Newgy 15y ago

Thank you for your brave work on this issue, you are a true patriot. "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." -- Samuel Adams, Founding Father

cafard 15y ago
Was the expression "brush fire" current in the late 1700s? In fact, the whole sentence looks a little questionable.
- dpcx 15y ago
  Not really... http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=brush+fire&year_start=1700&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=brush+fire&... As well as http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams#Misattributed http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams#Misattributed
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doug1001 15y ago
sure but this only applies to a citizen's inalienable right to make beer (and seasonal ales).