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.
Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter
ReplyDeleteReally? I don't remember the scene.
ReplyDeleteYou are all wrong! That is me waiting for my coffee to brew on a Monday morning.
ReplyDeleteElsa Lanchester, dunno the movie.
ReplyDeleteCelia Johnson in Noel Coward's "Brief Encounter.
ReplyDeleteBingo
DeleteYup. Brief Encounter. Great movie (the original one).
ReplyDelete??? never heard of her
ReplyDeleteIt's like "The Ladykillers" - a trainspotters' film.
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