‘Answer “Cause your down here....’
LOL!
Bad, bad, Badeye!...you owe me a keyboard.’
Not me, a young private from over a 150 years ago owe’s you a keyboard.
I just relayed a rather well documented exchange among hero’s from a bygone era.
Sure, go for the 'don't-shoot-the-messenger' angle. :-)
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I love quotes too. Particularly ones from the Founders concerning the Constitutional compact:
"If every infraction of a compact of so many parties is to be resisted at once as a dissolution, none can ever be formed which would last one year. We must have patience and longer endurance then with our brethren while under delusion; give them time for reflection and experience of consequences; keep ourselves in a situation to profit by the chapter of accidents; and separate from our companions only when the sole alternatives left are the dissolution of our Union with them or submission to a government without limitation of powers. Between these two evils, when we must make a choice, there can be no hesitation. But in the meanwhile, the States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of right, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation."
Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 1825. ME 16:148