"As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a……" — James Lee
"As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with a Kentucky rifle from behind a tree. You don't put on a peaked hat and a red coat and white leggings and crossed white bandoleers with a big silver buckle in the center of the X and march uphill into a line of Howitzers loaded with chain and chopped horseshoes."
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They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to…
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