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.
Where's Michael Corleone?
ReplyDeleteYou just missed him, like the Sicilian Mafia did.
DeleteAll those places were paid off centuries ago. Here most everybody dies with a mortgage.
ReplyDelete...and your mortgage is for a house that'll last for a small fraction of how long these buildings have stood.
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