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.
Anyone know who's the engraver?
ReplyDeleteApparently his name was 'Power' and this is the likely origination of that famous saying long associated with firearms, 'Always keep your Power dry'
ReplyDeleteWhen was it that derringers started sporting trigger guards? All the old ones I see at gun shows have just a spur trigger...no guard.
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