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.
He lives in our village, Lightwater in Surrey, UK. We’d occasionally see him, or rather hear him in our local supermarket regaling the staff and customers. What a voice. What a character. Nice guy.
"Blackadder" is one of my all time favorite Britcoms........
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In a crazy coincidence, right now I am watching Brian Blessed in the 1980 camp film “Flash Gordon”.
ReplyDeleteHe lives in our village, Lightwater in Surrey, UK. We’d occasionally see him, or rather hear him in our local supermarket regaling the staff and customers. What a voice. What a character. Nice guy.
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