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.
Like our old cattle dog when we went hiking in the spring. Always looking for a pile of snow to lay down and cool off.
ReplyDeleteThat picture must have been taken before the turn of the century since Algore told us they'd all be extinct by now.
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