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"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!" - Samuel Adams, January 21, 1776.

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      ·  7 years ago (edited)

    Wow! How appropriate a quote in the dark days of fake news and political and Orwellian doublespeak. The longer that I live the more I wonder if the Founding Fathers were some type of time travelers. Or, they simply had the dastardly and predictable doings of a long line of previous tyrants to draw from. Either way, it is genius, plain and simple.

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        ·  7 years ago 

      I agree completely! Time and time again, their prescience is remarkable.

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          ·  7 years ago 

        I look forward to more of your quotes. Are you a constitutional scholar?

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            ·  7 years ago 

          Thank you! The plan is to have at least 1-2 daily. Most days I could do more, but I'd like to save some so as not to repeat next year.

          I am not. I'm just a nerd who "collects" Founding Father quotes as a hobby. I identify closely with this one - "But I stand on the general principles of freedom, whereon I dare to meet any one." - George Mason, June 14, 1788.

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              ·  7 years ago 

            I tend to favor quotes by Jefferson, largely because I was able to find several about gardening, farming, and food. I am curious - have you ever discovered any directly related to hunting or fishing?

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                ·  7 years ago 

              I don't really have any to speak of, I think mostly due to a combination of the fact that neither are particular interests of mine, and that the ones I've seen were largely too mundane to be of much interest. Here's what I've got:

              "I again repeat, how great Care shoud be observed in choosing active Marksmen; the manifest Inferiority of inactive Persons, unused to Arms, in this Kind of Service (tho. equal in Numbers) to lively Persons, who have practised hunting, is inconceivable; the Chance against them is more than two to one." - George Washington, April 16, 1756.

              "We proceeded up the River with the Canoe about 4 Miles more, & then incampd & went a Hunting; killd 5 Buffaloes & wounded some others—three deer &ca." - George Washington, November 2, 1770.

              "This difference is ascribed to our superiority in taking aim when we fire; every soldier in our army having been intimate with his gun from his infancy." - Thomas Jefferson, June 8, 1778.

              "I send by the stage, to be lodged for you at Orange C. H. a box containing a pair of Turkish pistols. They were originally with wheel-locks, which not being convenient, I had locks of the modern form substituted, but so that they can be changed for the former in a moment. They are 20. inch barrels so well made that I never missed a squirrel 30. yards with them. I fixed one in a wooden holster to hang in the loop of the pommel of my saddle to be handily taken out & in, having used it daily while I had a horse who would stand fire. " - Thomas Jefferson, August 15, 1816.

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                  ·  7 years ago 

                Actually, they are just the kind of thing that I have been looking for, and Jefferson and Washington to boot. Fantastic, and thank you so much.

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                    ·  7 years ago 

                  No problem! Let me know if you ever have any more requests! These are all from my category on anything gun-related.

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