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.
Imagine Washington and the Continental Army having M4s and modern weapons. England would be our 51st state, Ireland our 52nd and Bermuda our 53rd...
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