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.
In landscape architecture, we call those "goat paths." The maintenance people at my old college campus would occasionally try to shoo students back onto the concrete sidewalks to preserve the lawn. I once asked why the sidewalks didn't go the way people obviously wanted to go and was told "so it would look symetrical from the air." That there is another example of voting with your feet.
In landscape architecture, we call those "goat paths." The maintenance people at my old college campus would occasionally try to shoo students back onto the concrete sidewalks to preserve the lawn. I once asked why the sidewalks didn't go the way people obviously wanted to go and was told "so it would look symetrical from the air." That there is another example of voting with your feet.
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