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.
And windy!
ReplyDeleteTree line is below 4,000 feet in the White Mountains. What is it in the Rockies, another 10,000 feet higher?
I was once told that people have frozen to death on Mt. Washington in all twelve months of the year.