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.
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Good Advice
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin
Ben, shouldn't that be "... find you a better woman"??
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