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.
As someone who, in his youth, worked for a neighbor cutting and splitting firewood at $2 a day (circa 1957) that is some sweat equity.
ReplyDeleteWhen I'm done splitting wood, my maul head is shiny...just sayin'.
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