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.
Beautiful composition....
ReplyDeleteStorm Jib. Expecting a big blow.
ReplyDelete"I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by..." Wish I'da written it....
ReplyDeleteHa! I was just going to say the lonely sea and sky. Sir Francis Chichester wrote a book by that name.
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