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.
My dad on the way to school.
ReplyDeleteAnd it was uphill on the way home, too!
DeleteBut did he have shoes?
DeleteTwo things I would not do: climbing a frozen waterfall, and traversing a precipice like he is doing.
ReplyDeleteAs Hemingway once remarked; There are only three sports...
ReplyDeleteMountain climbing, auto racing and bullfighting - everything
else is just a game!
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