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.
Rumor has it, on the day of his death, Mikhail Kalashnikov had downed several liters of Russian Vodka, and left this world fully loaded...
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Not a bad way to end quite a remarkable run.
DeleteIn my head, he said it in the voice of Boris from the Bullwinkle cartoons.
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