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.
I've seen scenes like that up close and personal and it never ceases to be magical.
ReplyDeleteRain on sagebrush is the best smell on earth - with perhaps the exception of the smell of a freckle faced girl's hair!
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