Famous words, fighting words, fierce words of resolve ... and certifiably 100% all words of false pretence, the common rhetoric of rolling your own personal war, and that you and I can't quite place the incident of this particular occurrence is no fault of our memory, nor is the particularization of this particular pronouncement anything peculiar, because you're right, you have heard this all before:

"Repeated acts of violence against the armed forces must be met not only with alert defense, but with a positive reply. That reply is being given as I speak tonight."
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So who do you figure? Was it Roosevelt? Johnson? Maybe Bush? Or Bush? Or was it McKinley or what Hearst told McKinley? Or was it Hirohito in Manchukuo or Hitler at Reichstag or at Gleiwitz, or even maybe Nero at the burning of Rome?

Could it really have been all of the above?