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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.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Over at National Review Online, an excellent review of homeschooling, and the threat it poses to entrenched interests in the public sector.

Great read.
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