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.
Pretty sure that if kinetic war is attempted anywhere in the next few years, the US Navy plus numerous supply and merchant marine ships will be able to be found on the bottom of the ocean.
April, 1942
ReplyDeleteThat was 4 months into the war.
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ReplyDeletePretty sure that if kinetic war is attempted anywhere in the next few years, the US Navy plus numerous supply and merchant marine ships will be able to be found on the bottom of the ocean.
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