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.
a great read.
ReplyDeletetoo, he was Orson Bean's first cousin twice removed.
I am reading The Forgotten man now and I will definitely will read Coolidge!
ReplyDeleteI've been re-reading some Mencken.
ReplyDeleteHe didn't have many nice things to say about Cal.