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.
I've read accounts of being alone on the ocean, and the hallucinating that can accompany it.
destroyer sank, man alone in lifeboat, at night his fellows would pull themselves into the boat and stay the night and slip back into the water come morning. Slocum and the pilot of the Santa Maria (?). chinese sailor torpedoed in the south atlantic. singlehand sailor of the large multi masted french boat in the singlehand atlantic race, and others.
I've read accounts of being alone on the ocean, and the hallucinating that can accompany it.
ReplyDeletedestroyer sank, man alone in lifeboat, at night his fellows would pull themselves into the boat and stay the night and slip back into the water come morning. Slocum and the pilot of the Santa Maria (?). chinese sailor torpedoed in the south atlantic. singlehand sailor of the large multi masted french boat in the singlehand atlantic race, and others.
comes with the territory.