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.
Fire steel, magnesium rod with fire steel, butane lighter, waterproof match safe with strike any where matches, and white birch bark tinder bundle are all in every one of my back packs, inspired by this story, read when I was young.
that's a sad sight
ReplyDeleteread the short story. bad place to be with 1 match
ReplyDeleteI like his stories
ReplyDeleteFire steel, magnesium rod with fire steel, butane lighter, waterproof match safe with strike any where matches, and white birch bark tinder bundle are all in every one of my back packs, inspired by this story, read when I was young.
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