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.
That's precisely the sort of thing that I would have done to my brother.
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DeleteThat reminds me of Kris Kringle in the classic 1947 Hollywood movie, "MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET".
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