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 don't think that anyone would jump the fence surrounding the White House if we had this guy and a few dozen of his buddies guarding it. If they did, they'd only jump once.
Would you really want to challenge him? I expect that he knew how to use that 'lunger' bayonet.
ReplyDeleteHe'd stick you with a smile.
DeleteI don't think that anyone would jump the fence surrounding the White House if we had this guy and a few dozen of his buddies guarding it. If they did, they'd only jump once.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he survived the Bolshevik revolt, or did they summarily execute him, as they did the Czar and his entire family?
ReplyDeleteOr, did he join the Bolsheviks, as many soldiers did?