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.
Wouldn't it have been nice to have bought some land anywhere in that picture at the time?
ReplyDeleteYep. I can feel the summer heat radiating from this picture ( I live about forty miles due east of here).
DeleteYou can now buy land in the old Presidio...if you can afford it.
ReplyDeleteLast time I crossed it, I was on my Norton 750 Interstate in about '73. At sunset. Glorious.
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