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.
Winter is coming
ReplyDeletePlenty of meat for the freezer, and bitchin' ivory legs for the dinner table.
ReplyDelete"Then away he'll schlep
ReplyDeleteOn his elephant Shep,
While Fella and Ursula
Stay in step!"