“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
Abraham Lincoln
“It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.”
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
“Are you a communist?”
“No I am an anti-fascist”
“For a long time?”
“Since I have understood fascism.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Abe, it looks like they are going with suicide.
Hemingway lied. He was a communist.