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Dear All, Looks spurious to me, for all the reasons that Richard mentioned. The earliest I can find it in a Google books is in a book of quotations called the *Daily Patriot* from 2003, wedged between quotations from Daniel Webster and George W. Bush: http://books.google.com/books?id=V0LzvCVp14UC&lpg=PA230&dq=%22brushfires%20of%20freedom%22&pg=PA230#v=onepage&q=%22brushfires%20of%20freedom%22&f=false It does not show up on Hathi Trust at all, or in J-STOR. However, the quotation had shown up on the internet as of the first major crawl of it that Google has available, Feb. 1, 2001, entirely on very conservative websites, chat rooms, etc. It's always attributed to Samuel Adams, but with no provenance. Andy Schocket --
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