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.
Funny...I thought I was the only one with that thought rattling around in my head. Many times I've found myself actually angry and saddened by that travesty. My God! How much different and, possibly, more enhanced would human civilization have been if we had had all of that lost information as a foundation?!?!
Funny...I thought I was the only one with that thought rattling around in my head.
ReplyDeleteMany times I've found myself actually angry and saddened by that travesty.
My God! How much different and, possibly, more enhanced would human civilization have been if we had had all of that lost information as a foundation?!?!
It's good to know I'm not the only one. :-)
DeleteI have thought of this for a very long time. I imagine many of those texts are stored in the Vatican vault.
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