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.
Esther 5:3
ReplyDelete3 And the king said to her, “What do you wish, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given to you—up to half the kingdom!”
Yep, she's a queen. A definite keeper. Lovely. Esther 5:3 is spot on.
ReplyDeleteThere are thousands of other women where Prov 11:22 applies: "As a ring of gold in a swine's snout so is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion."