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.
No, and that's what will get them killed in the coming "unpleasantness" that's about to erupt. Plus they've been taught that competition and confrontation are bad, and will assume that everyone else is like them.
For tens of thousands of years in the human race...If you can keep it it's yours...
ReplyDeleteLove the title! - lol
ReplyDeletenothing much has changed.
ReplyDeleteIs that the Viking attack on Lindesfarne depicted?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if our younger generation would look up from their phones if they were present for such festivities
ReplyDeleteNo, and that's what will get them killed in the coming "unpleasantness" that's about to erupt. Plus they've been taught that competition and confrontation are bad, and will assume that everyone else is like them.
DeletePerhaps one of the several attacks on Clon Macnoise lying on the Shannon River in Ireland.
ReplyDeleteThat's Minneapolis, ain't it?
ReplyDeleteMy bad, it's hard to tell which burning city it is these days.