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.
Hercules? or Samson?
ReplyDeleteI think Samson was fighting lions while Hercules was toppling temples.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking Samson, too - not sure why there would be a statue of him in Greece, though...
ReplyDeleteMy wife’s boyfriend gave me a Wii for Christmas, I’m playing right now while they are getting drinks!
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