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.
You can't do it any other way with honor. I'm not suggesting me with a machine gun and him with a stick. In a way, that's why counting coup made sense. Both men of honor lived to fight another day. That concept was lost on white men.
It would be an honor to meet this man on the field of battle.
ReplyDeleteBut you'd both have to have the same weapons - let's say daggers at dawn ( looks like he has some ritual or decorative scars on his arms )?
DeleteYou can't do it any other way with honor. I'm not suggesting me with a machine gun and him with a stick. In a way, that's why counting coup made sense. Both men of honor lived to fight another day. That concept was lost on white men.
DeleteMagnificent photo, CW. How proud he looks!
ReplyDeleteHe does have the regal bearing, doesn't he?
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