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.
It's having to haul a sheep up and down to mow the roof that would bug me
ReplyDeleteGet the neighbor kid to mow the roof every Saturday.
DeleteThe solitude. It beckons,
ReplyDeleteI'd live there.
ReplyDeleteWith a freckled, red-headed, Viking lass to keep me company.
And in sammiches.
Hey, it's my fantasy. Go write yer own.