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.
Tolkien speaking through Bilbo Baggins offered another profound bit of magnificent English language:
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
Tolkien speaking through Bilbo Baggins offered another profound bit of magnificent English language:
ReplyDelete“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
Got that right. Nothin better than a simple life in this world, those running shit, whom have gone mad.
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