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.
For we've received orders for to sail back to England, but we hope in a short time to see you once more!
ReplyDeleteOr the old joke:
ReplyDelete"Are you ladies fron England?"
"Wales!!"
"Oh, beg your pardon! Are you whales from England?"