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.
Friday, November 8, 2024
The Lion Gate in the city of Hattusa, Turkey. I bet that was impressive in its prime.
Still is impressive I would say!
ReplyDeleteTsk, Tsk! They want it spelled Turkiye these days...gobble gobble.
ReplyDeleteScrew that and the new Ukrainian spellings. Its Kiev.
DeleteAnd Peking. And Vienna. Uppity foreigners, expecting the world to use their names for their countries and cities.
Deleteit'll always be Saigon to me.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Hobbes.
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