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.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
For extra credit, identify both of these American curmudgeons.
R Crumb and Edward Abbey. Crumb did the illustrations for the 1985 10th anniversary edition of Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang. This was re-released in 2010.
R Crumb and Edward Abbey. Crumb did the illustrations for the 1985 10th anniversary edition of Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang. This was re-released in 2010.
ReplyDeleteBingo! Great if eccentric Americans, both!
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