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.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
I would normally put this on my Patreon, but I can't resist putting it here because it's true and it's Lauren Bacall
Then my dad must've been from New York. He liked to say things such as, "The world doesn't revolve around you", "The world doesn't owe you a living", and the ever popular "Children should be seen and not heard." Swell guy!
Times have changed. When you arrive there New York owes you a fat debit card.
ReplyDeleteShe's talking about "back then" when everybody was color-blind and old, aged men got up to give their seat to a lady - and all women were ladies.
ReplyDeleteNot like that anymore Slim
ReplyDeleteThere was a sign on a New York City subway, "Give your seat up to a woman, unless she's wearing a Red Sox cap".
ReplyDeleteAmen.
ReplyDeleteGrew up in NYC during the Mantle years. Different time, different place.
ReplyDeleteSpin Drift
Then my dad must've been from New York. He liked to say things such as, "The world doesn't revolve around you", "The world doesn't owe you a living", and the ever popular "Children should be seen and not heard." Swell guy!
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