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Quotes of the Day for 19 April 2005 - Blood

What Paul Revere was warning of last night, specifically British troop movement, lead to the battles at Lexington and Concord today. Indeed, this has been an extraordinarily bloody date ever since then. There were the Baltimore Riots of 1861. The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto struck back against the Nazis on this day in 1943. The FBI attacked the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas in 1993, and finally, in 1995 the bombing in Oklahoma City. We'll have a more uplifting topic tomorrow, it would be hard not to.

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
     - George S. Patton, 1885 - 1945

A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict, however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.
     - James A. Garfield, 1831 - 1881

What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
     - Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs.
     - Will Durant, 1885 - 1981

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions ... but by iron and blood.
     - Otto von Bismarck, 1815 - 1898

For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother tomorrow.
     - William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

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