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.
Most of us start out as something different than where we end up in life. I can only presume that was the case here.
ReplyDeleteSuch a sad photograph, CW - he looks so uncomfortable in that ill-fitting suit.
ReplyDeleteHe looks a little irritated to me - probably the photographer was telling him what to do and he didn't like it.
DeleteThey tamed him.
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