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.
that sad look in your eyes when you realize that from now, all past glory and victories aside, you are a conquered person and will be treated as a child by the victors instead of as a warrior and man, as is your right; for ever.
that sad look in your eyes when you realize that from now, all past glory and victories aside, you are a conquered person and will be treated as a child by the victors instead of as a warrior and man, as is your right; for ever.
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