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.
Correct! I needed to post a hard one for a change. This one was obscure, but my favorite guess is Solzhenitsyn by Aggie. Bagehot does have that scraggy, just released from the gulag look.
I'm going to guess, Solzhenitsyn
ReplyDeleteWell, nope. Wouldn't have gotten this one.
DeleteOrson Wells?
ReplyDeleteI will call him George
ReplyDeleteAnd you will pet him and squeeze him and...Stop it. Put me down. You're hurting me. 😆
DeleteBeardly McBeardface
ReplyDeleteI like your answer. Instruction was to "name this person", not "who is this person".
DeleteGoogleFu says Walter Bagehot
ReplyDeleteCorrect! I needed to post a hard one for a change. This one was obscure, but my favorite guess is Solzhenitsyn by Aggie. Bagehot does have that scraggy, just released from the gulag look.
Delete"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do…"
Delete"Life is a school of probability.." - Walter Bagehot
okay, Farnsworth P. Crabapple.
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ReplyDeleteJoseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) American religious leader a founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement
ReplyDeleteif not ...Joe Strummer
Joseph Smith was blonde and had no beard. Probably Joe Strummer.
DeleteUlysses S Grant
ReplyDeleteHunter Biden upon being released from rehab.
ReplyDeleteNope, that's hunter bidens rehab instructor after dealing with hunter.
DeleteFred, I will call him Fred.
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