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.
Saturday, January 1, 2022
Thanks, and more thanks!
And additional thanks to Ewan, Gary and Harold and Frank for becoming patrons. Wildly appreciated over here on my end.
Another round of thanks!
Thanks to Rob, John, Joseph, and C Van for becoming patrons! Hugely appreciated!
Those 19 guys should have gotten together and arranged it so Strauss never had to buy his own beer at the bar again (reality check: he probably drank bourbon).
Joseph Strauss, the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge, ordered that a safety net be installed under the bridge during construction. For the time, it was a revolutionary thing. The net "captured" 19 men who had fallen, saving them all from certain death.
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