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.
Ignore this if I am incorrect, wasn't that done by an artist?
ReplyDeleteLong ago, Heinlein wrote a great book about ice-skating in the canals of Mars. I preferred that version to reality, but the Universe don't care.
ReplyDeleteIf it's ice, what kind? Surely not water.
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