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.
Why was the mushroom invited to the party ? Because he was a funguy.
ReplyDeletewhat are these things? (just a few years from now)
ReplyDeleteWe shall be a decrepit and moronic species if the printed word ever disappears from this planet!
ReplyDeleteThe printed word is already on the way out. Young folks say, "Why would I want to destroy a forest of trees when I can read it on my cell phone?"
DeletePicard disagrees
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When I was a kid Pop gave me Wildwood Wisdom, by Ellsworth Jaeger (sp?). I still enjoy it - text and his artwork.
ReplyDeleteImagine going to all that trouble to illustrate the end of the binding like that.
ReplyDeleteThose are works of art.
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