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.
I remember similar ones at the local Stationary/Drug store soda fountain back in the 50s.
ReplyDeleteMy wife has a light green one and tries to wear it out each summer.
ReplyDelete20 summers later and she keeps failing to kill it.