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.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
U.S. Senator John C. Calhoun in 1849.
If anyone was going to rise up out of the grave and haunt the world, this guy would be the one.
My wife is descended from that Calhoun. I've gotten that exact stare many times, now I know where it comes from. An entire family devoted to destroying all fun. Sigh.
My wife is descended from that Calhoun. I've gotten that exact stare many times, now I know where it comes from. An entire family devoted to destroying all fun. Sigh.
Good lord. 1849 is the same year Edgar Allan Poe died. I think now I see where he got his inspired horror from.
ReplyDeleteMy wife is descended from that Calhoun. I've gotten that exact stare many times, now I know where it comes from. An entire family devoted to destroying all fun. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteMy wife is descended from that Calhoun. I've gotten that exact stare many times, now I know where it comes from. An entire family devoted to destroying all fun. Sigh.
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