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.
Living out in rural eastern Colorado, we have falcons and hawks catching and eating slower moving doves all of the time.
ReplyDeleteOh, a pigeon a day keeps the hunger away :-)
ReplyDeleteSomething that I learned quite a while ago is that "pigeons" are actually Rock Doves.
DeletePigeons by any name are
Deletefilthy things.
In the city they are rats with wings.
DeleteThat’s a beautiful hunter.
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