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.
There are easier ways of killing yourself without all the exertion. Just Gonna die tired.
ReplyDeletewhat a tedious life you must lead!
ReplyDeleteThat column is just waiting for a good hard pull.
ReplyDeleteColumnar basalt. Not likely to spall like, say plutonic granite. But it does happen.
ReplyDeleteYou climb because it is there.