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.
Rough living, yes, but living free.
ReplyDeleteThe way housing prices are headed these days that tree house looks inviting.
ReplyDeleteI've seen much worse.
ReplyDeleteI could live in that thing if I had to.
Think I'd fashion a door on it though, and maybe a sheen gun tower.
My Side of the Mountain, as I recall it. Last read about 50 years ago.
ReplyDeleteExactly...and let's not give the "flee-ers" any ideas.
DeleteMy side of the mountain, 40 years in.
ReplyDeleteFirst thing that came to my mind too.
Delete"He who lives in stump houses should not throw axes"
ReplyDeleteCozy place to get out of the wind and the rain. I remember that book too - good read. I have to pick it up and read it again soon.
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