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'd love to have been a frog on the side of the stream looking up.
ReplyDeleteSo, do the lassies go commando too?
ReplyDeleteI thought I could smell fish.
DeleteI forget, which day of Christmas is she?
ReplyDeleteSolvieg (the fair lass pictured) occupies a special place in my heart!
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"Up among the heather at the hills of Banderkee..."
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