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.
Stoly, and losing a huge percentage of healthy men in WW2. Current specimens are hardly the cream of the crop.
ReplyDeleteHow'd you do the backerds 'R'?
ReplyDeleteTrue. Very true.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, it's not even close to the truth, at least for a large percentage of Russian women from the cities.
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