New bit: we use that line to critique IP laws.

“They’re not using the technology to the fullest extent, therefore that patent should be shared with people who will!”

President James Madison was intrigued by the analysis of Major General Henry Dearborn that in the event of war, Canada would be easy pickings — even that an invasion would be welcomed by the Canadians.

from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/war-of-1812

I can already hear Jesse Waters’s horrible and entirely uninformed “news” segment about it…