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.
Is that Devil's Tower?
ReplyDeleteEl Capitan, in Yosemite Valley
DeleteThe hexagonal basalt columns threw me. I've never been to El Capitan.
DeleteNo basalt at Yosemite. There are, however, 27 types of granite.
DeleteNot too far south of Yosemite is Devil's Postpile, which is basalt.