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.
Winston was a good statesman, but the Afrikaans speaking people is South Africa not very fond of what the English did to us in the Anglo-Boer War... Henk
I own the book, and agree with you. It's a good read.
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