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 saw that movie in the theater with my parents. Coming out of it I saw my (current) grade school teacher and was so surprised. I guess I thought she lived at the school.
Such an iconic movie of the time.
ReplyDeleteI saw that at a drive in theater in Santa Rosa, CA sitting in the back seat (rear facing) of a Dodge station wagon.
DeleteEveryone knows Quint's demise in Jaws, ever see Robert Shaw's end in the original "The Taking of Pelham-123"?
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The third rail was effective.
DeleteI saw that movie in the theater with my parents. Coming out of it I saw my (current) grade school teacher and was so surprised. I guess I thought she lived at the school.
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