Day by day it seemed to get stronger. The Jiminy Crickets, with the converted flamethrowers, poured gas into the street. The Guardsmen began moving forward in formation, bayonets on their rifles. The hardest thing for some liberal minds to understand, at their distance, is that provocation is a human necessity in the face of the humiliation of being utterly blocked. Why, the nation itself is at stake.
Personal danger is much to be preferred.
A man without love of country is, as the politicians observe, nothing. Ask not what you can do for your country, but what you can make your country do to you. Objects were being thrown from the rooftops and windows of buildings. Bottles were thrown at the Guard lines by demonstrators. Firecrackers were tossed.