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.
Of those, the ballot box is the most worthless. It alone can be, and often is, overridden by those in a position of greater power. It alone is actually valueless... simply because we live in a republic instead of a true democracy.
Amen!
ReplyDeleteToo bad they can't spell his name. Douglass.
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Of those, the ballot box is the most worthless. It alone can be, and often is, overridden by those in a position of greater power. It alone is actually valueless... simply because we live in a republic instead of a true democracy.
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