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.
Each and every day.
ReplyDeleteHad an aunt raised on a ranch at justiceberg, tx. that used to talk about blowing the moss off the surface of these things to get a drink.
ReplyDeleteAnybody that's ever worked around cattle knows that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
DeleteAnybody that's every worked around cattle knows there's a lot of things that can kill you, long before 'getting stronger' gets any consideration.
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