To: ChildOfThe60s; Polynikes
"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
~Abraham Lincoln, Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (January 27, 1838)
16 posted on
06/20/2009 9:11:54 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(In memory of my father, Gunnery Sgt., USMC, WWII and Korea, 1925-2002)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
17 posted on
06/20/2009 9:29:37 PM PDT by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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