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.
Should have used hollow points.
ReplyDeleteHad to have been a near point-blank broadside.
ReplyDeleteAt least they were nice enough to do it above the waterline.
ReplyDeletePrivate Snuffy, after finding out the hard way about why you don't throw lighted smoking material into the methane-rich crew's head holding tank.
ReplyDeleteCaptain's Mast had him repairing the damage by hand with a ball peen hammer for the remainder of his enlistment.