> How about a moral? Something like "Stay on your
> toes," "Don't rest on your laurels," or "Don't trust
> the French"? Well, that last one has universal
> application.
Coming from a nation that's spent most of the last thousand years or so at war with thme: yep.
> The significance is that the English chased their
> boldest and brightest abroad, along with their
> religious nuts and criminals.
But that was back in the 1600s (and you could have fooled me about the brightest and boldest). It was *after* that that we built our empire. After the religious extremists who thought even the Puritans were too lax had left (not pushed: left).
> That's America's
> population for you -- bold, bright, nutty, and
> criminal. ;-)
If you say so.
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