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THE FICTION OF INVINCIBLE MILITIA
I am going to tell you some facts that will make you think. I don’t care a hang what you think—to begin with. I don’t care what any American thinks, if he will only think at all. I’ve got a pig-headed faith that Americans are going to think right before they get done thinking.
Our tradition of the invincible militia and the victorious Minutemen had its birth at
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