After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.
Farley MowatIt is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
Farley MowatWhenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.
Farley Mowat