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.
I could sit there with a dog and read a book.
ReplyDeleteIf that dark thing to the right is a wood-burning stove, then I'd love to sit or lie on the bed.
ReplyDeleteI would, while awake. One would be sitting or lying upon combustibles pretty close to that wood stove.
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