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.
Now THAT is festive.
ReplyDeleteBut there is about to be a lot more excitement at the other end.
DeleteThat's where the presents are opened and they get what's coming to them.
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