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.
Nice.
ReplyDeleteA part of the Bayeux Tapestry? LOL.
ReplyDeleteThat's the part of the map where they would write "Here be monsters".
ReplyDeleteat a later date, Chaucer used the phrases "cut to the chase" (wife of bath) and "pushing up daisies" (pardoner's prologue)
ReplyDeleteSlava Rossiya!
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