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 wonder if the Scots females do the same thing as the Scot men, wearing nothing under their kilt?
ReplyDeleteFirst thought that came to my mind too.
DeleteUp among the heather at the hill of Benachie...
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RetRsvMike
Solveig is a very fashionable Lass, even if she's actually FRENCH!
ReplyDeleteBayouwulf
Scotland is lovely from this angle...
ReplyDelete"I don't ken where ya'been, Laddie, but I'ma glad to see'ya won first prize!" comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteJpaul
Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low.
ReplyDeleteOver the hills in my kilt I'll go.
All the lassies say oh oh,
Donald where's your troosers
Och! The wind did na lift her kilt.
ReplyDeleteMy sporran just flew across the room.
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