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.
I'm not a leftist and I also think the pledge is stupid. The worst part of it is making children do it. Its unenforceable and crafted by committee to be pointless.
60 years ago it was 100% patriotism. All Americans would place their right hands over their hearts and tears would flood their eyes.
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I'm not a leftist and I also think the pledge is stupid. The worst part of it is making children do it. Its unenforceable and crafted by committee to be pointless.
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