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.
We live in such amazing times- on the one hand, dreams from my science-fiction loving youth are coming true; but on the other hand, the barbarians are being welcomed inside our gates.
On the gripping hand, I won't live long enough to find out whether the West will abide, or will crumble into oblivion.
We live in such amazing times- on the one hand, dreams from my science-fiction loving youth are coming true; but on the other hand, the barbarians are being welcomed inside our gates.
ReplyDeleteOn the gripping hand, I won't live long enough to find out whether the West will abide, or will crumble into oblivion.