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.
Monday, October 7, 2024
Encampment of Gypsies with Caravans, Artist: Vincent van Gogh
i keep thinking now in my older age that that would be the life for me. to just roam.
ReplyDeleteYou are not alone in that thought.
ReplyDeleteIt's a timeless desire. Check out Tennyson's Ulysses. Same thing. "Come my friends, t'is not too late to seek a newer world.'
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