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.
At the 7th ridge line...
ReplyDeleteI lived in the Smokies off an on in the 70's: God's Country!
ReplyDeleteCheck out Mcafee's Knob the most photographed location on the Appalachian Trail.
ReplyDeleteGranny said when she was a girl back in Tennessee, she set so many boys hearts on fire they took to calling that area the smokey mountains.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Friedrich's "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog"...
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