Quote #290 [explains pogo joke] In a message announcing victory in the naval battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812,

Quote #290

[explains pogo joke]
In a message announcing victory in the naval battle of Lake Erie in the War
of 1812, Oliver Hazard Perry informed the American land armies, "We have met
the enemy, and they are ours."
In one of the earliest expressions of ecological concern, Walt Kelley's
cartoon characters stood in their polluted swampland home, where Pogo sadly
informed his companions, "We have met the enemy, and they are us."