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'd draw a comparison with our Commander-in-Chief, but I don't think that Barack could throw a punch - maybe a slap or threaten to claw its eyes out?
ReplyDelete"Life is hard. It is harder when you are stupid."
ReplyDelete...variously attributed to both John Wayne, and/or to the author George V. Higgins.
Either way - it's true, as demonstrated by far too many people...
Or as someone said once. "If you're going to be stupid, you better be tough."
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