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1775, American Revolution, April 19, bumper sticker mentality, Redcoats, this day in history, United States of America, Vietnam
On which, with the help of British Redcoats who wish to seize a cache of gunpowder, the nascent nation of America invents the bumper-sticker slogan, “You’ll Take My Gun When You Pry It From My Cold, Dead Hands.”
"This Is Just The Beginning, Brothers! Before Our Great Experiment Has Run Its Course, We Will Have Vanquished An Entire Alphabet Of Foes!"
Promethean Times 
I believe that’s also the slogan for New Hampshire…Well, at any rate, it’s pretty close to “Live Free or Die”…
It is. George Carlin has a joke about New Hampshire’s “Live Free or Die” and Idaho’s “Famous Potatoes.” He says that somewhere between the true, the truth must lie. “It’s probably a little closer to Famous Potatoes.”
….Tardsie is very wise.
I used to scream “You’ll Take My Virginity When You Pry It From My Cold, Dead Hands” to my dates.
Um, I’m still saying that, but there’s no takers.