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.
"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead."
ReplyDeleteGood advice in war. Good advice in peace. Good advice period.
Never quoted better than by Charles Coburn in his Oscar winning role as Benjamin Dingle.
ReplyDeleteI live in Farragut, TN. It was named after him.
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