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Newgy on March 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story

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 on March 8, 2012 | [–]

Was the expression "brush fire" current in the late 1700s? In fact, the whole sentence looks a little questionable.

dpcx on March 8, 2012 | | [–]

Not really... http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=brush+fire&...

As well as http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams#Misattributed

doug1001 on March 9, 2012 | [–]

sure but this only applies to a citizen's inalienable right to make beer (and seasonal ales).

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