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.
The Marcus Aurelius?
ReplyDeleteThe all wise all knowing Marcus Aurelius who shut down my gladiatorial games?
I thought he said he brought the sword and nothing else, I thought after all his conquests he wanted only to return Rome to a Republic again.
Why would I read that.
Did O.J. Simpson write this?
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