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.
Houdini
ReplyDeleteHarry Houdini
DeleteOur age is showing. What an amazing fella.
DeleteGeez, how young are your followers?
ReplyDeleteErik Weisz
ReplyDeleteIf it wasn't for the metal, I'd've assumed it was William Jennings Bryan
ReplyDeleteLooks like that pilot that made the first powered airplane flight in Australia
ReplyDeleteHoudini. Houdini said that the hardest thing he ever did was to get out of bed. Heh
ReplyDeleteRockefeller?
ReplyDeleteLiked reading about him when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteHis last name became synonymous with getting out of jams and has passed into obscurity due to the relevance and the passage of time.
ReplyDeleteI dunno about that, here in England the phrase is used by all ages, apart from the very young. Maybe they don't who Houdini was or what he did.
DeleteEric Weisz is the correct answer, but he did answer to Harry Houdini
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