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.
Still every bit as lethal as the day it was forged.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't want that buried in my guts. All it's missing is a barb and a dip in poison.
DeleteWouldn't want to use that against a boar without some sort of crossguard to help hold the boar back.
ReplyDeleteThat's one pretty pig-sticker.
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