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.
Quite the future we had back then!
ReplyDeleteThe future was an obsession among those of us who read Popular Science, Popular Mechanics and Mechanics Illustrated back in the day.
ReplyDeleteThe only prediction that came true was the cruise control.
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