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.
They are one of the coolest plants on earth.
ReplyDeleteI bet with all the rain lately they've doubled their circumference. Takes one 100 years before growing an arm.
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