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.
And, actually, those are respectable chips too....
ReplyDeleteI'll bet the earth moved when that hit the ground.
ReplyDeleteI've been standing around when trees about half that size hit the ground. The earth does indeed shudder.
DeleteI have seen trees that big when I was a kid and lived on the BC coast.
ReplyDeleteHow many board feet?
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