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From a similar query on H-Law: "In case you were not already aware of it, an excerpt from a recent law review article: in current political discourse, some use a quote attributed to Samuel Adams to justify relentless protest: "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." The quote, however, could not be located in Adams' writing, nor could any use of the quote be found prior to 2000. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "irate" was first used in 1838, thirty-five years after Samuel Adams's death. The first known use of "brush fire" is dated 1850. Barak Y. Orbach and Frances R. Sjoberg, "Excessive Speech, Civility Norms, and the Clucking Theorem," 44 Conn. L. Rev. 1, 54 (2011) (footnotes omitted). Jol Silversmith Partner, Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger, LLP" http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Law&month=1310&week=a&msg=%2B6DNFX3RY11hvjHTE2BNUw ------------------------------------------- Thomas Lawrence Long, PhD Associate Professor-in-Residence School of Nursing, University of Connecticut 231 Glenbrook Rd. U-4026 Storrs, CT 06269 Suite 313 Storrs Hall Phone: 860.486.5794 Center for Nursing Scholarship Affiliate in the Department of English Affiliate in Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Professional Writing Coach and Editor | NursingWriting.com Editor-at-Large | Council of Editors of Learned Journals | celj.org Editor | Literature, Medicine, Medical Humanities: An MLA Commons site | medicalhumanities.commons.mla.org --
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