MY SAY: MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE- NOT ONE CENT FOR TRIBUTE
My friend and e-pal DPS sent me a column posted below on Stephen Decatur- a hero of the Barbary Wars.
As President Obama bows in fulsome tributes to Moslem nations but guts our military, harken to the words often incorrectly attributed to Patrick Henry or Charle Pinckney, but stated by Senator Robert Goodloe Harper- Federalist from Maryland- in response to the millions in tributes that America was paying to the Arab pirates of the Barbary Coast.
“”Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.”
Robert Goodloe Harper (January 1765 – January 14, 1825), a Federalist, was a member of the United States Senate from Maryland, serving from January 1816 until his resignation in December of the same year. He also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives (1790–1795), the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina (1795–1801), and in the Maryland State Senate.
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