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.
Saturday, November 4, 2017
The longest straight line you can walk across the Earth - 8,443 miles (13,589 km)
Warring nations aside, I doubt if the man has yet been born who could walk it.
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DeleteThe Eastern 2/3rds was called the Silk Road.
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