And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I reckon I've probably read everything he ever wrote, and I usually end up laughing so hard, that I'm blinded by the tears rolling down my cheeks.
He lived a colorful and remarkable life, but one negative thing I can say about Mark Twain is that when serving in the Confederate Army, he and some others DESERTED and fled to California.
(That is greatly significant for me, as I was a soldier in the United States Army, and my ancestor served in the Confederate Army.)
In Mark Twain's later years, he chose to become a Yankee, living and dying in Elmira, New York.
Where's the pipe?
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ReplyDeleteI'll bet he knew how to use that pistol!
ReplyDeleteGood trigger discipline there, Sam!
ReplyDeleteIs that Samuel Clemens, a.k.a., Mark Twain?
ReplyDeleteI reckon I've probably read everything he ever wrote, and I usually end up laughing so hard, that I'm blinded by the tears rolling down my cheeks.
He lived a colorful and remarkable life, but one negative thing I can say about Mark Twain is that when serving in the Confederate Army, he and some others DESERTED and fled to California.
(That is greatly significant for me, as I was a soldier in the United States Army, and my ancestor served in the Confederate Army.)
In Mark Twain's later years, he chose to become a Yankee, living and dying in Elmira, New York.
I especially enjoyed Roughing It.
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