I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up. - Benjamin Lincoln

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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up. - Asa quotes