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.
The ebbing of an Empire - but back then they didn't see it fading in the same way we can with the benefit of hindsight. In those days after the War to End All Wars, it seemed as if the ball would keep rolling for the British.
The ebbing of an Empire - but back then they didn't see it fading in the same way we can with the benefit of hindsight. In those days after the War to End All Wars, it seemed as if the ball would keep rolling for the British.
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