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.
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Sergeant Rasmus Madsen Løvik, police constable in Bergen, Norway 1843
Facial hair like that always looks impressive, but then I think about how much effort a man would have to put into it, and I wonder about his priorities.
I can comfortably speculate that he would drink that beer.
ReplyDeleteReady for his flaming beard & mustache trim, eyebrows no extra charge.
ReplyDeleteI guess if you can't grow it one place, just grow it another.
ReplyDeleteThat is always my thought...
DeleteFacial hair like that always looks impressive, but then I think about how much effort a man would have to put into it, and I wonder about his priorities.
ReplyDeleteI'd buy him a beer just to see how he drinks it.
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