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.
Monday, March 23, 2026
Royal Army engineers sit and drink their tea on the edge of a bomb crater in the middle of London, 21 October 1940.
Suddenly the fractured edge collapses and the bomb claims 30 more silly victims.
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