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.
(True story- I once passed on an opportunity to buy a Mercedes Benz. Why? Because the salesman recognized that I was young, poor, and was planning to do my own maintenance- so he asked me how I'd change the sparkplugs, then opened the hood. I didn't recognize anything, it was all shrouded. I couldn't even find the sparkplugs! So I bought a Citroen ID19 instead- one of the very best cars I have ever owned, and one that I wish I still had.)
When you think about it, it's just a pump with a spark plug. Sure seems complicated.
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DeleteOK, how much to change the spark plug on that?
ReplyDelete(True story- I once passed on an opportunity to buy a Mercedes Benz. Why? Because the salesman recognized that I was young, poor, and was planning to do my own maintenance- so he asked me how I'd change the sparkplugs, then opened the hood. I didn't recognize anything, it was all shrouded. I couldn't even find the sparkplugs! So I bought a Citroen ID19 instead- one of the very best cars I have ever owned, and one that I wish I still had.)