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.
Compared to today's handheld "not so smart" phones, these relics look almost identical.
ReplyDeleteNo one was ever killed crossing the street while talking or looking at any one of those.
ReplyDeleteBut more than a few have been beat to death with one.
DeleteAnd then they went to touch-tone, put hundreds of thousands of operators out of work, and somehow humanity survived.
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