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.
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Though rock-hard and jewel-like when polished, petrified wood is actually a fossil, not a gemstone.
It's amazing what a bit of polish will do to a stone, or a bit of bone or petrified tree or human being.
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