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, May 7, 2020
Tennyson's Ulysses said it best
"Come, my friends,
T'is not too late to seek a newer world,
Push off, and sitting well in order,
Smite the sounding furrows,
For my purpose holds,
To sail beyond the sunset,
And the baths of all the western stars,
Until I die."
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You are gonna make me read "Ulysses" now!! Beautiful passage
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