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.
There's no feeling like standing on a high spot you've reached under your own power.
ReplyDeleteI'm 75 and the last 20 years have just kicked my ass, but I'm on the way back. See you up there!