"A bayonet is a weapon with a working man at either end."

[Dan Goncharoff]

There is also the possibility he said them in Russian, which Maclean
had learned by 1918.
DanG



On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Tens of thousands attribute this quote to the Scottish Socialist John
> Maclean (1879-1923: he even got on a Soviet postage stamp in 1979).
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> Maclean supposedly uttered the words in 1917 or '18, but the Wikipedia
> article doesn't mention them.
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> Real? Or Memorex?
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> JL
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