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.
Our front porch looks very much like that one, but ours is 70 feet long.
ReplyDeleteHa! Size matters. eh?
DeleteAh, a book, a tall peach iced tea, and a Fuente Hemingway cigar. What a way to end your day.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, especially the cigar!
DeleteObviously the view from the rockers is picturesque as well. My pulse has already dropped.
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