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.
Actually the Bf, Mali, and a good deal of the surrounding kingdoms were rich in ancient times (think 700BC to 1100 AD) from the salt-gold trade across the Sahara.
But today, it's a miserable place. So much potential, wasted on Islamic terrorist ideology and corruption.
Don't drink and think you'll wander home.
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ReplyDeleteThousands and thousands of years.....of mud huts.
ReplyDeleteActually the Bf, Mali, and a good deal of the surrounding kingdoms were rich in ancient times (think 700BC to 1100 AD) from the salt-gold trade across the Sahara.
ReplyDeleteBut today, it's a miserable place. So much potential, wasted on Islamic terrorist ideology and corruption.