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.
This "present" would be viewed by my wife the same way as if I gave her a vacuum cleaner. A nice thought but a really bad idea.
ReplyDeleteYou beat me to the punch, which we would both have gotten with gifts like those!
DeleteAnd my first thought was what would happen if someone tripped and fell on it.
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