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.
And there are those who think this isn't possible. Know of a Battle of the Bulge news clip of a Sherman sliding on ice
ReplyDeletei have seen a clip of a Sherman during the Bulge breaking loose on an icy hill, and sliding down, while rotating on it's axis.
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