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 was born in the same hospital as he was in Lawrence, Mass., some 10 years later. Likely some distance relation, because we are both at least partly French Canadian. His novels are interesting; his poetry is not.
Jack Kerouac
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ReplyDeleteI was born in the same hospital as he was in Lawrence, Mass., some 10 years later. Likely some distance relation, because we are both at least partly French Canadian. His novels are interesting; his poetry is not.
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