SLL WILL BE ON A BUSINESS TRIP FROM 3/2 TO 3/6 AND WILL BE UNABLE TO POST. POSTING WILL RESUME 3/7.
Yesterday SLL posted “The Lion and the Sheep,” from Justin Raimondo at antiwar.com. He noted the real provenance of the quote Donald Trump tweeted, which was supposedly from Benito Mussolini:
On June 14, 1918, a nineteen year old Italian soldier by the name of Bernardo Vicario was ordered by his commander, Carl Rigoli, to carry out a curious task. Outnumbered and outgunned, the Italian forces would soon be hit with a furious bombardment that would mean the death of most of them. Rigoli clearly knew this, which is why he told young Bernardo to write an inscription on the ruined wall of a home in the village of Fagare, where they were holed up:
“Better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.”
The truth about the source of the quote hasn’t really gotten out there, but Trump correctly noted on Meet The Press that, “It’s a very good quote; it’s a very interesting quote, and I know it. I saw it. And I know who said it. But what difference does it make whether it’s Mussolini or somebody else? It’s certainly a very interesting quote.”
It is a very good quote. It would make a good byline for the liberty movement or SLL (but SLL already has, “Never underestimate the power of a question”). It is pathetic that Trump’s opponents and the Republican establishment are trying to make an issue of this. This is all they’ve got, and it demonstrates their absurd desperation.
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““Better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.”
The truth about the source of the quote hasn’t really gotten out there, but Trump correctly noted on Meet The Press that, “It’s a very good quote; it’s a very interesting quote, and I know it. I saw it. And I know who said it. But what difference does it make whether it’s Mussolini or somebody else? It’s certainly a very interesting quote.””