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.
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Just one damn disaster after another...
ReplyDeleteAnd then denial that it was a disaster, and then when the denial is laughed away, an attempt to blame someone else, like an eight year old.
DeleteWhat's the ship? other than the democratic ship of state of course.
DeleteThe Austro-Hungarian SMS Szent Istvan capsizing after being struck by an Italian torpedo, 10 June 1918.
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