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 have that very hat, made in Hawick (pronounced Hoik) Scotland. It's my fishing hat.
ReplyDeleteGreat minds...
DeleteThey're all crushable. The question is whether they're DEcrushable....
ReplyDeleteVery nice. Needs a hat band of braided horse hair or snake skin. In my younger days, I skinned out a diamondback buzzworm and made my own.
ReplyDeleteSnakeskin, yes! With the dried head open mouthed and fanged, in the front.
DeleteI had the gray version of that when I was in my 20's.
ReplyDeleteMine's the Australian equivalent: the Akubra.
ReplyDeleteIt's young though, I've only had it 30 years. It's about broke in now.