[...] And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the 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. It is its natural manure."
И еще одна. Только не Джефферсона, а Франклина, который на стодолларовой купюре. Допускаю, что вы не умышленно врете, а всего лишь цитируете цитату Джефферсоном Франклина.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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Date: 2007-11-09 01:26 am (UTC)[...] And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the 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. It is its natural manure."
И еще одна. Только не Джефферсона, а Франклина, который на стодолларовой купюре. Допускаю, что вы не умышленно врете, а всего лишь цитируете цитату Джефферсоном Франклина.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.